Kanji1 / 11
都 kanji
metropolis, capital, all, everything
- JLPT level
- N3 (unofficial)
- First appears in
- N4 vocabulary
- Strokes
- 11
- School grade
- Grade 3 (elementary school)
On readings
トツ
Kun readings
みやこ
Variant forms
都Words with 都
LevelWord & meaningActions
- —都道府県Popularprefectures (of Japan); largest administrative divisions of Japan: Tokyo-to, Osaka-fu, Kyoto-fu, Hokkaido and the remaining prefectures
- —都市ガスPopularcity gas; mains gas; gas supplied to buildings via pipes
- —都市計画Popularcity planning; urban planning; town planning
- —旧都old capital; former capital
- —全都the whole metropolis; the whole capital; all of Tokyo; the whole of Tokyo
- —帝都imperial capital
- —都雅graceful; sophisticated
- —南都Nara; Kōfuku-ji (Buddhist temple in Nara)
- —奠都transferring the capital
- —都邑city; town; village
- —都鄙town and country
- —都下in the capital; in Tokyo; Western Tokyo; areas of Tokyo outside the 23 wards, esp. the Tama area
- —都督governor-general
- —都銀city bank; metropolitan bank
- —国都(national) capital city
- —都連(Tokyo) party chapter
- —県都prefectural capital
- —陪都secondary capital city (of historical China)
- —都護Protector General (Tang-period Chinese official); travelling inspector of the provincial governments (Nara and Heian-period position)
- —聖都Holy City (e.g. Jerusalem, Mecca)