Feminine
Tokyo

Tokyo

Meaning

Tokyo (a prefecture, the capital city of Japan)

Concepts

Tokio

Yeddo

capital of Japan

Japanese capital

Synonyms

Translations

Frequency

C1
Hyphenated as
Tò‧kyo
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈtɔ.kjo/
Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 東京 (とうきょう, Tōkyō, literally “Eastern capital”), from Middle Chinese 東 (tuwng, “east”) + 京 (kjæng, “capital”).

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