京

See also 亰

Translingual

Stroke order

Han character

京 (radical 8 亠+6, 8 strokes, cangjie input 卜口火 (YRF), four-corner 0090₆, composition ⿳亠口小){{#if:亠|[[Category:Han characters}}|亠06京]]

1. capital city
2. 10 quadrillions or 10 millions

References

• KangXi: page 88, character 19
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 299
• Dae Jaweon: page 187, character 11
• Hanyu Da Zidian: volume 1, page 284, character 6
• Unihan data for U+4EAC

See also

• Chinese Numeral 京
  • Last: 兆
  • Next: Larger numeral exists but not used anymore. (垓)

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Cantonese

Hanzi

京 (Yale ging1)

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Japanese

Kanji

京 (grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. capital city
2. ten quadrillion

Readings

• On: きょう (kyō), けい (kei), きん (kin)
• Kun: みやこ (miyako)
• Nanori: あつ (atsu), たか (taka)

Compounds

京華 京響 京形 京劇 京菜 京阪 京師 京滋地方 京女 京人 京人形 京成 京大 京地 京都 京表 京風 京物 京方 京浜

京葉 京洛 東京 上京 英京 帰京 在京 出京 退京 滞京 中京 帝京 南京 入京 平安京 平城京 北京 離京

Etymology 1

/kyau/ > /kyoː/.

Noun

京 (hiragana きょう, romaji kyō, historical hiragana きやう)

1. capital (city)
2. (abbreviation) Tokyo (東京, Tōkyō)
3. (abbreviation) Kyoto (京都, Kyōto)

Etymology 2

Compound of miya (“imperial palace”) and ko (“place”).

Noun

京 (hiragana みやこ, romaji miyako)

1. the place where the emperor resides
2. a city that acts as an economic and political center; capital
3. metropolis

Etymology 3

Number

京 (けい, kei)

1. 10,000,000,000,000,000, (US) ten quadrillion, (UK) ten thousand billion

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Korean

Hanja

京 (hangeul 경, revised gyeong, McCune-Reischauer kyŏng, Yale kyeng)

Compounds

• 京釜 (경부, Gyeongbu)
• 京仁 (경인, Gyeongin)

See also

• 서울 (seoul)
• 首都 (수도, sudo)

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Mandarin

Hanzi

京 (pinyin jīng (jing1), Wade-Giles ching¹)

1. artifical mound (original meaning)
2. capital (city)
3. (abbreviation) Beijing (北京)

Compounds

• 京白
• 京白梨
• 京菜
• 京城 (jīngchéng)
• 京都 (jīngdū; Jīngdū)
• 京二胡 (jīng èrhú)
• 京官
• 京胡 (jīnghú)
• 京华, 京華 (jīnghuá)
• 京剧, 京劇 (Jīngjù)
• 京派
• 京腔
• 京师 京師 (jīngshī)
• 京味, 京味儿
• 京戏
• 京韵大鼓
• 京族

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Vietnamese

Han character

京 (kinh)