Tokyo

See also: tokyō, tōkyo, Tôkyô, Tōkyō, and tōkyō

English

Alternative forms

• Tōkyō, Tôkyô

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 東京 (Tōkyō, literally “eastern capital”), as opposed to Kyoto in the west, from Middle Chinese 東 (tuwng, “east”) + 京 (kjæng, “capital”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /toʊ.ki.oʊ/
• IPA^(key): /təʊ.ki.əʊ/

Proper noun

The 23 Wards of Tokyo (blue), Yokohama (red), Kawasaki (purple), Saitama (pink), Chiba (green).

Tokyo

1. The capital of Japan.

Synonyms

• Edo, Yedo (former name)

Derived terms

• Tokyoite

Translations

capital of Japan

• Afrikaans: Tokio
• Albanian: Tokio
• Amharic: ቶክዮ (tokyo)
• Arabic: طُوكْيُو m (ṭūkyū), تُوكْيُو m (tūkyū)

  Hijazi Arabic: طوكيو (ṭōkyō)

• Armenian: Տոկիո (Tokio)
• Assamese: টকিঅ’ (tokió)
• Azerbaijani: Tokio (az)
• Basque: Tokio (eu)
• Belarusian: То́кіё m (Tókijo) (taraškievica), То́кіа m (Tókia)
• Bengali: টোকিও (bn) (ṭōkiō)
• Bulgarian: То́кио m (Tókio)
• Burmese: တိုကျို (tui-kyui)
• Catalan: Tòquio m
• Cherokee: ᏙᎩᏲ (dogiyo)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 東京／东京 (dung¹ ging¹), 东京 (dung¹ ging¹)

  Hakka: 東京／东京, 东京 (Tûng-kîn)

  Mandarin: 東京／东京 (zh) (Dōngjīng), 东京 (zh) (Dōngjīng)

  Min Dong: 東京／东京 (Dĕ̤ng-gĭng), 东京 (Dĕ̤ng-gĭng)

  Min Nan: 東京／东京 (zh-min-nan), 东京 (zh-min-nan) (Tang-kiaⁿ)

  Wu: 東京／东京 (¹ton-cin), 东京 (ton jin)

• Cree: ᑐᑭᔪ (tokiyo)
• Czech: Tokio (cs) n
• Danish: Tokyo
• Dutch: Tokio (nl) n, Tokyo n
• Dzongkha: ཊོ་ཀི་ཡ (ṭo ki ya)
• Esperanto: Tokio (eo)
• Estonian: Tokyo (et)
• Finnish: Tokio (fi)
• French: Tokyo (fr) m, (academic spelling) Tōkyō (fr) m
• Galician: Toquio (gl) m
• Georgian: ტოკიო (ṭoḳio)
• German: Tokio (de) n
• Greek: Τόκιο (el) n (Tókio), Τόκυο (el) n (Tókyo)
• Greenlandic: Tokyo
• Hebrew: טוֹקְיוֹ (tokyo)
• Hindi: टोक्यो (ṭokyo), तोक्यो (tokyo)
• Hungarian: Tokió (hu)
• Icelandic: Tókýó, Tókíó
• Indonesian: Tokyo
• Inuktitut: ᑑᑭᐅ (tookio)
• Inupiaq: Tokyo
• Irish: Tóiceo
• Italian: Tokyo (it) f, Tokio (it) f
• Japanese: 東京 (ja) (とうきょう, Tōkyō)
• Kannada: ತೊಕ್ಯೋ (tokyō)
• Kazakh: Токио (Tokio)
• Khmer: តូក្យូ (km) (toukyou)
• Korean: 도쿄 (Dokyo), 동경 (Donggyeong) (東京 (ko)), 토쿄 (Tokyo)
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• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji:

  Sorani:

• Kyrgyz: Токио (Tokio)
• Ladino:

  Hebrew script: טוקיו

  Roman: Tokio

• Lao: ໂຕກຽວ (tō kiāu)
• Latvian: Tokija f
• Lithuanian: Tokijas (lt) m
• Macedonian: Токио m (Tokio)
• Malay: Tokyo
• Maltese: Tokjo
• Marathi: टोकियो (ṭokiyo), तोकियो (tokiyo)
• Mongolian: Токио (Tokio)
• Norwegian: Tokyo
• Okinawan: 東京 (とーちょー, tōchō)
• Oriya: ଟୋକିଓ (ṭokio)
• Pashto: توکیو
• Persian: توکیو (fa) (tokyo)
• Polish: Tokio (pl) n
• Portuguese: Tóquio (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਟੋਕੀਓ (ṭokīo)
• Romanian: Tokio (ro)
• Russian: То́кио (ru) m (Tókio)
• Rusyn: То́кіо n (Tókio)
• Sanskrit: टोक्यो (ṭokyo)
• Santali: ᱴᱚᱠᱭᱚ (ṭôkyô)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: То̏кио m

  Roman: Tȍkio (sh) m

• Silesian: Tokjo n
• Sindhi: ٽوڪو
• Sinhalese: ටෝකියෝ (ṭōkiyō)
• Slovak: Tokio (sk) n
• Slovene: Tokio (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Tokio n

  Upper Sorbian: Tokio n

• Spanish: Tokio (es) m, (rare) Tokyo m
• Swedish: Tokyo (sv)
• Tagalog: Tokyo
• Tajik: Токио (tg) (Tokio)
• Tamil: தோக்கியோ (tōkkiyō)
• Tatar: Токио (Toqio)
• Telugu: తొక్యో (tokyō)
• Thai: โตเกียว (th) (dtoo-giao)
• Tibetan: ཐོ་ཁེ་ཡོ (tho khe yo)
• Turkish: Tokyo (tr)
• Turkmen: Tokio
• Ukrainian: То́кіо (uk) m (Tókio)
• Urdu: ٹوکیو (ṭokiyo)
• Uyghur: توكيو (tokyo)
• Uzbek: Tokio
• Vietnamese: Tô-ki-ô, Đông Kinh (東京)
• Yiddish: טאָקיאָ n (tokyo)
• Zhuang: Dunghgingh

See also

Country

• Japan

Core City of Tokyo

• Hachiōji

Cities of Tokyo

• Fuchū
• Hino
• Inagi
• Kiyose
• Mitaka
• Musashino
• Tachikawa

Subprefectures of Tokyo

• Hachijō
• Miyake
• Ogasawara
• Ōshima

Template:mid2 23 Special Wards of Tokyo

• Adachi
• Arakawa
• Bunkyō
• Chiyoda
• Chūō
• Edogawa
• Itabashi
• Katsushika
• Kita
• Kōtō
• Meguro
• Minato
• Nakano
• Nerima
• Ōta
• Setagaya
• Shibuya
• Shinagawa
• Shinjuku
• Suginami
• Sumida
• Taitō
• Toshima

Anagrams

• Kyoto, Kyōto

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Danish

Proper noun

Tokyo

1. Tokyo (the capital of Japan)

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French

Alternative forms

• Tōkyō
• Tôkyô

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /to.kjo/

Proper noun

Tokyo m

1. Tokyo

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoːki̯o/, [ˈtoː.ki.o], [-.kjo]

• Audio

  (file)

Proper noun

Tokyo n (proper noun, strong, genitive Tokyos)

1. Alternative spelling of Tokio

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Italian

Alternative forms

• Tokio

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Japanese 東京 (とうきょう, Tōkyō, literally “Eastern capital”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Chinese 東 (tuwng, “east”) + 京 (kjæng, “capital”).

panorama di Tokyo

landscape view of Tokyo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔ.kjo/, [ˈt̪ɔːk̟jo]
• Hyphenation: Tò‧kyo

Proper noun

Tokyo f

1. Tokyo (the capital city of Japan)

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Swedish

Proper noun

Tokyo

1. Tokyo (the capital of Japan)