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Keyword
capital
  • 10**16
Frequency
#74
Strokes
8
Grade
2
JLPT (old)
N3
Heisig
334
Readings
キョウ89%
ケイ11%
Mnemonic
Packed under one giant lid of smog, millions of small mouths shout for taxis at once: welcome to the capital.
Stroke order
Composed of
Used in kanji
Used in vocabulary
北京ぺきん
Beijing (China); Peking
Noun
京きょう都と
Kyoto (city, prefecture)
Noun
京みやこ
capital (esp. Kyoto, Japan's former capital); seat of government; capital (of music, fashion, etc.); city (e.g. of light); location of the Imperial Palace
Noun
京きょう
imperial capital (esp. Kyoto); final word of an iroha poem; 10^16; 10,000,000,000,000,000; ten quadrillion
Noun
中ちゅう京きょう
Nagoya (city); Chūkyō metropolitan area (most of Aichi, and parts of Gifu and Mie prefectures; centered around Nagoya); Chūkyō region
Noun
在ざい京きょう
being in the capital (i.e. Tokyo, or formerly Kyoto)
Noun
上じょう京きょう
going (up) to the capital; going to Tokyo
Noun
京けい阪はん
Kyoto and Osaka; Kyoto-Osaka area
Noun
南京なんきん
Nanjing (China); Nanking; pumpkin; squash; Chinese; Southeast Asian; foreign; rare; precious; cute
Noun
京けい阪はん
Keihan Electric Railway (abbr)
Noun
京けい成せい
Keisei (train line Tokyo-Narita)
Noun
京きょう大だい
Kyoto University (abbr)
Noun
帰き京きょう
returning (home) to Tokyo; returning to the capital
Noun
京きょう劇げき
classical Chinese opera
Noun
埼さい京きょう線せん
Saikyō Line (railway line running from Tokyo to Saitama)
Noun