Kyoto

See also: kyōto, kyōtō, and Kyōto

English

Alternative forms

• Kioto, Kyōto

Etymology

From Japanese 京都 (kyōto, “capital city”), from Middle Chinese 京都 (kjæng-tu, “capital (of a country)”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkjoʊtoʊ/

Proper noun

Kyoto

1. A prefecture of Japan.
2. The capital city of Kyoto Prefecture, Japan, and the country's former capital.
3. (international law) The Kyoto Protocol.
   • 2013, Stewart Lockie, David A. Sonnenfeld, Dana R. Fisher, Routledge International Handbook of Social and Environmental Change, Routledge (→ISBN), page 112:

     The merits and limitations of Kyoto have been subject to great discussion. Some criticize the regime for being too top-down, wasteful and infective as a means of tacking climate change (Prins and Rayner 2007; Victor 2001).

Translations

Kyōto, Japan

• Amharic: ክዮቶ (kyoto)
• Arabic: كِيُوتُو‎ m (kiyūtū)

  Egyptian Arabic: كيوتو‎ f (kiyutu)

• Basque: Kioto
• Bengali: কিওটো (kioṭo)
• Bulgarian: Киото (Kioto)
• Burmese: ကျိုတို (kyuitui)
• Catalan: Kyoto m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 京都 (ging¹dou¹)

  Mandarin: 京都 (zh) (Jīngdū)

• Czech: Kjóto (cs)
• Danish: Kyoto
• Dutch: Kyoto
• Esperanto: Kioto
• Estonian: Kyōto
• Finnish: Kioto (fi)
• French: Kyoto (fr)
• Galician: Quioto m
• Georgian: კიოტო (ḳioṭo)
• German: Kyōto
• Greek: Κιότο (el) f (Kióto)
• Hebrew: קיוטו‎ (kyoto)
• Hindi: क्योटो (kyoṭo), क्योतो (kyoto)
• Hungarian: Kiotó (hu)
• Indonesian: Kyoto
• Irish: Ciótó

• Italian: Kyoto (it)
• Japanese: 京都 (ja) (きょうと, Kyōto), 京都府 (ja) (きょうとふ, Kyōto-fu), 京都市 (ja) (きょうとし, Kyōto-shi)
• Korean: 교토 (Gyoto), 교또 (ko) (Gyotto) (North Korea)
• Latin: Meacum (la), Miaco, Kyotum (la) n, Kioto (la) f, Kyoto f
• Lithuanian: Kiotas
• Macedonian: Кјото n (Kjoto)
• Marathi: कियोटो (kiyoṭo)
• Mongolian: Киото (Kioto)
• Norwegian: Kyoto
• Ossetian: Киото (Kioto)
• Persian: کیوتو‎
• Polish: Kioto (pl) n
• Portuguese: Kyoto (pt) f, Kioto f, Quioto (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਕਿਓਤੋ (kioto)
• Romanian: Kyoto
• Russian: Кио́то (ru) m (Kióto)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Кјото m

  Roman: Kjoto m

• Slovene: Kjoto
• Spanish: Kioto (es) m
• Swedish: Kyoto
• Tibetan: ཁ་ཡོ་ཐོ (kha yo tho)
• Turkish: Kyoto
• Ukrainian: Кіо́то (uk) n (Kióto)
• Urdu: کیوتو‎
• Uyghur: كيوتو‎ (kyoto)
• Vietnamese: Kyoto, Kyōto, (Sino-Vietnamese) Kinh Đô
• Western Panjabi: کیوٹو‎

Further reading

• Kyoto on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Kyoto Protocol on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Tokyo, Tôkyô, Tōkyō

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• Kioto, Quioto

Proper noun

Kyoto f

1. Kyoto (a prefecture of Japan)
2. Kyoto (the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture, Japan)

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Kyoto.