Kyoto

See also: kyōto, kyōtō, Kyōto, and Kyôto

English

Alternative forms

• Kioto, Kyōto

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 京(きょう)都(と) (Kyōto, literally “capital city”), from Middle Chinese 京都 (kjæng-tu, “capital (of a country)”).

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Southern England):

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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)

  Hijazi Arabic: كيوتو f (kiyōtu)

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

  Cantonese: 京都 (ging¹ dou¹)

  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, Kiotum n
• Lithuanian: Kiotas
• Macedonian: Кјото n (Kjoto)
• Marathi: क्योटो (kyoṭo), क्योतो (kyoto)
• Mongolian: Киото (Kioto)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Kyoto

• Ossetian: Киото (Kioto)
• Persian: کیوتو
• Polish: Kioto (pl) n
• Portuguese: Quioto (pt)
• 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
• Thai: เกียวโต (giao-dtoo)
• Tibetan: ཁ་ཡོ་ཐོ (kha yo tho)
• Turkish: Kyoto
• Ukrainian: Кіо́то (uk) n (Kióto)
• Urdu: کیوتو (kyoto)
• Uyghur: كيوتو (kyoto)
• Vietnamese: Kyoto, Kyōto, (Sino-Vietnamese) Kinh Đô
• Western Panjabi: کیوٹو (keyoṭo)

See also

• (prefectures of Japan) Japan; Aichi, Akita, Aomori, Chiba, Ehime, Fukui, Fukuoka, Fukushima, Gifu, Gunma, Hiroshima, Hokkaidō, Hyōgo, Ibaraki, Ishikawa, Iwate, Kagawa, Kagoshima, Kanagawa, Kōchi, Kumamoto, Kyoto, Mie, Miyagi, Miyazaki, Nagano, Nagasaki, Nara, Niigata, Ōita, Okayama, Okinawa, Osaka, Saga, Saitama, Shiga, Shimane, Shizuoka, Tochigi, Tokushima, Tokyo, Tottori, Toyama, Wakayama, Yamagata, Yamaguchi, Yamanashi

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• Tokyo, Tôkyô, Tōkyō

Portuguese

Proper noun

Kyoto

1. Alternative spelling of Quioto
   • 2015, Jo Takahashi, Izakaya: Por dentro dos botecos japoneses, Editora Melhoramentos, →ISBN, page 27:

     No século VIII, o Palácio Imperial em Heiankyo, atual Kyoto, passou a admitir trabalhadores para produzir o saquê. Assim, era mantido o controle de toda a produção da bebida para as oferendas religiosas, para as festividades e para o consumo da corte. Na época, o saquê era de uso restrito da corte imperial.

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