京

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Translingual[edit]

Stroke order
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Han character[edit]

京 (radical 8 亠+6, 8 strokes, cangjie input 卜口火 (YRF), four-corner 00906, composition ⿳亠口小)

  1. capital city
  2. 10 quadrillions or 10 millions (1016)

References[edit]

  • 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[edit]

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

Cantonese[edit]

Hanzi[edit]

京 (Yale ging1)

Japanese[edit]

Kanji[edit]

See also:
京

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

  1. capital city
  2. ten quadrillion

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Etymology 1[edit]

/kyau/ > /kyoː/.

Noun[edit]

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

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

Etymology 2[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

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[edit]

Number[edit]

京 (けい, kei)

  1. 10,000,000,000,000,000, 1016, (US) ten quadrillion, (UK) ten thousand billion

Korean[edit]

Hanja[edit]

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

Compounds[edit]

See also[edit]

Mandarin[edit]

Hanzi[edit]

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

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

Compounds[edit]

Vietnamese[edit]

Han character[edit]

京 (kinh)

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