京 — Chinese character
京
jīng
capital city
- Pinyin
- jīng
- Radical
- 8 ⼇ (Lid)
- Strokes
- 8
- Components
- 亠 口 小
- Formation
- pictographic — A capital building on a hill
- Japanese
- 京 as a kanji
Common words with 京
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 京都 | jīng dū | capital (of a country) |
| 京城 | jīng chéng | capital of a country |
| 进京 (進京) | jìn Jīng | to enter the capital; to go to Beijing |
| 京师 (京師) | jīng shī | capital of a country (literary) |
| 回京 | huí Jīng | to return to the capital |
| 驻京 (駐京) | zhù Jīng | (abbr.) stationed in Beijing |
| 京畿 | jīng jī | capital city and its surrounding area |
| 京兆 | jīng zhào | capital of a country |
| 京胡 | jīng hú | jinghu, a smaller, higher-pitched erhu 二胡 (two-stringed fiddle) used to accompany Chinese opera; also called 京二胡 |
| 京味 | jīng wèi | Beijing flavor; Beijing style |
| 帝京 | dì jīng | imperial capital |
| 新京报 (新京報) | xīn Jīng bào | Beijing news (newspaper) |
京 in the Chinese classics
Occurrences: Mencius 1
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.