都 – vocab dash

都みやこ

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Meanings

Noun

1. capital (esp. Kyoto, Japan's former capital); seat of government

2. capital (of music, fashion, etc.); city (e.g. of light)

3. location of the Imperial Palace

Other spellings

京みやこ

Kanji used

Kanji in other spellings

Pitch accent

みやこ

Used in vocabulary

leaving (fleeing) the capital

Noun

avenue in the capital; busy main street of the capital; main thoroughfare

Noun

arriving in the capital

Noun

city-bred

Noun

dance performance held in April by geisha and maiko in Kyoto's Gion district

Noun

miyako-bushi scale (characteristic Japanese hemitonic pentatonic scale: mi, fa, la, ti, do)

Noun

Examples7

ロンドンはもはや霧きりの都みやこではない。

London is no longer a city of fog.

奈な良らはとても古ふるい都みやこです。

Nara is a very old city.

日本にほんでは８世せい紀きには既すでに立りっ派ぱな都みやこがつくられていました。

In Japan, a beautiful city was built as early as the eighth century.

住すめば都みやこ。

Wherever you live is the best place.

間ま取どりも狭せまいし、周まわりもうるさいけど、住すめば都みやこなんだよ、この部屋へや。

It's a small noisy apartment, but it's where I live and I call it home.

彼かれは銀ぎんの木きがある黄金おうごんの都みやこについてすばらしい話はなしを聞きいたことがあった。

He had heard wonderful stories about cities of gold with silver trees.