Kanji

Jōyō kanji, Taught in grade 3

JLPT level: N3

123 of 2500 most used kanji in newspapers

Stroke count: 11

Meaning: metropolis, capital, all, everything

Kunyomi: みやこ

Onyomi:

Composition:

Radical

Radical:

Reading: おおざと

Meaning: town (阝 right)

Strokes: 3

Examples

Examples with audio

市(とし)   city

会(とかい)   city

心(としん)   heart (of city)

営(とえい)   municipally owned

立(とりつ)   municipal

庁(とちょう)   Tokyo Government Office

東京(とうきょうと)   Tokyo Metropolitan area

(きょうと)   Kyoto

(しゅと)   capital city

合(つごう)   circumstances, convenience

度(つど)   each (every) time

(みやこ)   metropolis, city, capital

Onyomi Examples

Metropolis (of Tokyo), (Tokyo) Metropolitan District, metropolitan prefecture, counter for cities and towns, capital

トエイ (under) metropolitan government management

セント relocation of the capital, transfer of the capital

トウト the Eastern Capital (now Tokyo), Yedo, Edo

ツド each (every) time, whenever

ツゴウ circumstances, condition, convenience, to arrange, to manage, to lend money, to raise money, in all, in total, all told

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

入り みやこいり arriving in the capital

京の きょうのみやこ Kyoto

花の はなのみやこ the gay city (of Paris), capital of flowers, Kyoto