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CHINESE DICTIONARY ENTRY

京都

jīngdū

capital (of a country)

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DEFINITIONS & USAGE

Meaning and common use

01

capital (of a country)

REAL CORPUS EXAMPLES

How 京都 actually appears in real sentences.

These sentences are copied from the Tatoeba corpus, so they are real usage rather than generated text. 京都 appears in 66 of the 89,190 sentences we searched.

我生于京都。wǒ shēng yú jīng dū。

I was born in Kyoto.

你去过京都吗?nǐ qù guò jīng dū ma?

Have you ever visited Kyoto?

京都的夏天很热。jīng dū de xià tiān hěn rè。

Summers are very hot in Kyoto.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS

Words that keep company with 京都.

Counted from the same corpus: the word that most often comes directly before, and directly after, 京都.

Directly before

  • 在京都16
  • 去京都4
  • 去过京都3
  • 了京都3
  • 访问京都2

Directly after

  • 京都的6
  • 京都有4
  • 京都以3
  • 京都吗2
  • 京都和2
ABOUT THIS ENTRY

Where this entry comes from

The HSK level, part of speech, and pronunciation come from the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus. The English definitions come from CC-CEDICT. Corpus sentences, collocations, and the frequency figure come from the Tatoeba Chinese sentence export and are counted rather than written, so nothing on this page is invented. Usage notes and the hand-written examples that appear higher up exist only for a handful of entries.

Definitions from CC-CEDICT, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Vocabulary levels and parts of speech from the HSK 3.1 syllabus. This compiled dictionary is shared under the same CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

COMMON QUESTIONS

About 京都

What does 京都 mean in Chinese?

京都 (jīngdū) means capital (of a country).

How do you pronounce 京都?

京都 is pronounced jīngdū.

Is 京都 an HSK word?

京都 is on the list of the HSK 3.1 vocabulary syllabus.

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