Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 2

JLPT level: N4

74 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 8

Meaning: capital, 10**16

Kunyomi: みやこ

Onyomi: キョウ ケイ キン

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: なべぶた

Meaning: lid

Strokes: 2

Examples

Examples with audio

(とうきょう)   Tokyo

都(きょうと)   Kyoto

する(じょうきょうする)   travel to the capital

浜(けいひん)   Tokyo and Yokohama

阪神(けいはんしん)   Kyoto-Osaka-Kobe

(ぺきん)   Beijing

(なんきん)   Nanjing

Onyomi Examples

キョウ imperial capital (esp. Kyoto), final word of an iroha poem, 10^16, 10,000,000,000,000,000, ten quadrillion

キョウト Kyoto (city, prefecture)

テイキョウ the capital

ザイキョウ being in the capital (i.e. Tokyo, or formerly Kyoto)

キョウ imperial capital (esp. Kyoto), final word of an iroha poem, 10^16, 10,000,000,000,000,000, ten quadrillion

ケイハン Kyoto and Osaka, Kyoto-Osaka area

エイキョウ British capital, London

キン族 キンゾク Kinh (people), Vietnamese (people)

ナンキン Nanjing (China), Nanking, pumpkin, squash, Chinese, Southeast Asian, foreign, rare, precious, cute

Kunyomi Examples

みやこ capital (esp. Kyoto, Japan's former capital), seat of government, capital (of music, fashion, etc.), city (e.g. of light), location of the Imperial Palace

長岡 ながおかきょう Nagaoka-kyō (capital of Japan 784-794), Nagaokakyō (city)