The kanji 京: meaning, readings and stroke order

京

Meaning: capital city
On reading: キョウ kyou、ケイ kei
Kun reading: —
Strokes: 8
Radical: 亠 lid
Level: Level 2 · grade 2

Stroke order

Meaning in other languages

Vietnamese: kinh đô, thủ đô (kinh)
Japanese: みやこ。
Korean: 수도, 도읍 (경)
Chinese: 首都、京城

Readings, words and example sentences

キョウ kyou · on reading

上じょう京きょう
moving to the capital (Tokyo)
兄が東京へ 上じょう京きょうしました。
My big brother moved to Tokyo.

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Readings, radicals: Kanjium, KANJIDIC2 (CC BY-SA 4.0); strokes: KanjiVG (CC BY-SA 3.0); Korean, simplified forms: Unicode Unihan. Meanings, sentences: Dino Kids (CC0). See Licences.