京
Meanings
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- 1.surname Jing
- 2.short name for Beijing 北京[Běi jīng]
- 3.Gin or Jing, ethnic minority of China, descendants of ethnic Vietnamese people living mainly in Guangxi
- 4.Kinh, the ethnic majority in Vietnam
- 1.capital city of a country
- 2.big
- 3.algebraic term for a large number (old)
- 4.artificial mound (old)
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Wiktionary
- 1.capital (city)
- 2.ten quadrillion, 10¹⁶
- 3.tall mound
- 4.large barn
- 5.large; great
- 6.ten million, 10⁷
- 7.septillion, 10²⁴
- 8.A hundred nonillion, 10³²
- 9.Gin (ethnic Vietnamese from China)
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Etymology
Pictogram (象形) – a tall building (i.e. a tower). Compare 高. When used as a component on top of the character, the character loses the bottom part 小. (e.g., 亮 and 亭). Either from: * Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-gaŋ (“hill, ridge, mountain”) (STEDT), cognate with 岡 (OC *klaːŋ, “hill, crest”), 鯨 (OC *ɡraŋ, “whale”), Tibetan སྒང་ (sgang, “ridge; mound”), Burmese ခင် (hkang, “ridge”), Burmese အခေါင် (a.hkaung, “summit”), Lahu qhɔ³³ (“mountain”), Puroik gɹaŋ³³ (“mountain”), Proto-Tamangic *ᴬgaŋ ("hill, mountain"); or * of Austroasiatic origin, compare Proto-Mon-Khmer *graŋ (“hill, peak”) (Schuessler, 2007), whence Mon ဂြၚ် (krɛ̀aŋ, “peak”) and Old Khmer grāṅ (“hill on flat land”). Within Chinese, cognate with 景 (OC *kraŋʔ, “large”), 鯨 (OC *ɡraŋ, “whale”) (Schuessler, 2007).
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Stroke order
Components
Components from cjk-decomp · MIT
Example sentences
我昨天在東京。
I was in Tokyo yesterday.
我今天在東京。
I am in Tokyo today.
他一直住在東京。
He's always been living in Tokyo.
他昨天抵達東京。
He arrived in Tokyo yesterday.
我在東京站換火車。
I changed trains at Tokyo Station.
他畢業於東京大學。
He graduated from Tokyo University.
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Derived terms
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