Kanji1 / 8
京 kanji
capital, 10**16
- JLPT level
- N4 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N3 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 8
- School grade
- Grade 2 (elementary school)
On readings
キョウケイキン
Kun readings
みやこ
Variant forms
亰Words with 京
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —京洛capital (esp. Kyoto)
- —滞京staying in the capital; staying in Tokyo
- —京劇classical Chinese opera
- —退京leaving the capital; leaving Tokyo
- —離京departure from the capital
- —京菜mizuna (Brassica rapa var. nipposinica); potherb mustard
- —京胡jinghu (2-stringed Chinese instrument played with a bow)
- —京童Kyoto's children; Kyoto's young people, who are noisy and gossiping on the least pretext
- —京紫somewhat reddish purple
- —京官public official stationed in the capital (under the ritsuryō system)
- —京間standard measurement for the distance between pillars in the Kansai area (approx. 197 cm); Kyoto-size tatami mat (approx. 190 cm by 95 cm)
- —西京western capital; Kyoto
- —来京coming to a capital city (esp. Tokyo or Kyoto)
- —京芋shrimp-shaped taro variety
- —京舞traditional Kyoto dance
- —新京new capital; Hsinking (capital of Japanese puppet state Manchukuo; current-day Changchun); Xinjing
- —京雀gossipy Kyotoite
- —京男Kyoto man; man from Kyoto
- —両京the two capitals (e.g. Tokyo and Kyoto, Chang'an and Luoyang)
- —京烏Kyoto merchant; well-informed and loose-lipped Kyotoite