京 — kanji meaning “capital”
京
capital, 10**16
- Meanings
- capital, 10**16
- On'yomi
- キョウ (kyou)、ケイ (kei)、キン (kin)
- Kun'yomi
- みやこ
- Name readings
- たか
- Strokes
- 8
- School grade
- 2
- JLPT (old scale)
- Level 3
- Newspaper frequency
- #74 of 2,500
- Classical radical
- 8
- Chinese reading
- jīng — Chinese character page
Words with 京
| Word | Reading | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 東京 | とうきょう toukyou | Tokyo |
| 京都 | きょうと kyouto | Kyoto (city, prefecture) |
| 北京 | ペキン pekin | Beijing (China); Peking |
| 上京 | じょうきょう joukyou | going (up) to the capital; going to Tokyo |
| 中京 | ちゅうきょう chuukyou | Nagoya (city) |
| 帰京 | ききょう kikyou | returning (home) to Tokyo; returning to the capital |
| 在京 | ざいきょう zaikyou | being in the capital (i.e. Tokyo, or formerly Kyoto) |
| 京阪 | けいはん keihan | Kyoto and Osaka; Kyoto-Osaka area |
| 北京 | ほっきょう hokkyou | Kyoto |
| 京劇 | きょうげき kyougeki | classical Chinese opera |
| 南京 | ナンキン nankin | Nanjing (China); Nanking |
| 南京 | なんきょう nankyou | Nara |
Data: KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); JMdict (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.
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