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)

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

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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Chinese

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simp. and trad.		京

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): jīng (jing¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄐㄧㄥ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): ging¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese, Beijing)⁺
    • Pinyin: jīng
    • Zhuyin: ㄐㄧㄥ
    • Wade-Giles: ching¹
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: jing
    • IPA ^(key): /t͡ɕiŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: ging¹
    • Yale: gīng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: ging¹
    • IPA ^(key): /kɪŋ⁵⁵/

Middle Chinese pronunciation (京, reconstructed)
Character (京), Pronunciation 1/1
Initial: 見 (28) Final: 庚 Division: III			Openness: Open Tone: Level (Ø)			Fanqie: 舉卿切
Zhengzhang Shangfang	Bernard Karlgren	Li Rong	Pan Wuyun	Edwin Pulleyblank	Wang Li	Shao Rongfen
/kɣiæŋ/	/ki̯ɐŋ/	/kiɐŋ/	/kɯiaŋ/	/kiajŋ/	/kĭɐŋ/	/kiaŋ/

Old Chinese pronunciation (京, reconstructed)
Baxter-Sagart system 1.1 (2014)
Character								Modern Beijing (Pinyin)								Middle Chinese								Old Chinese								English
京								jīng								‹ kjæng ›								/*[k]raŋ/								hill; capital city
Notes for Old Chinese notations in the Baxter-Sagart system: Parentheses "()" indicate uncertain presence; Square brackets "[]" indicate uncertain identity, e.g. *[t] as coda may in fact be *-t or *-p; Angle brackets "<>" indicate infix; Hyphen "-" indicates morpheme boundary; Period "." indicates syllable boundary.
Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character					No.					Phonetic component					Rime group					Rime subdivision					Corresponding MC rime					Old Chinese					Notes
京					6828					京					陽					0					驚					/*kraŋ/

Definitions

1. artificial 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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Japanese

Kanji

京

(grade 2 “Kyōiku” kanji)

1. capital city
2. ten quadrillion

Readings

• Goon: きょう (kyō) < きやう (kyau)
• Kan’on: けい (kei)
• Tōon: きん (kin) (non-Jōyō reading)
• 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 (けいはん, keihan)
• 京師
• 京滋地方
• 京女
• 京人
• 京人形
• 京成
• 京大
• 京地
• 京都 (きょうと, kyōto; きやうと)
• 京表
• 京風
• 京物
• 京方
• 京浜 (けいひん, Keihin)

• 京葉
• 京洛
• 東京 (とうきょう, tōkyō; とうきゃう; とうけい, tōkei; トンキン, tonkin)
• 上京 (じょうきょう, Jōkyō)
• 英京
• 帰京
• 在京
• 出京
• 退京
• 滞京
• 中京 (ちゅうきょう, Chūkyō)
• 帝京
• 南京
• 入京 (にゅうきょう, nyūkyō)
• 平安京
• 平城京 (へいじょうきょう, Heijōkyō)
• 北京 (ぺきん, pekin, ペキン)
• 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, 10¹⁶, (US) ten quadrillion, (UK) ten thousand billion

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Korean

Hanja

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

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Compounds

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

See also

• 서울 (seoul)
• 首都 (수도, sudo)

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Vietnamese

Han character

京 (kinh)

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