キョウ
Meanings
Numeric
1. 10^16; 10,000,000,000,000,000; ten quadrillion
usu. けい
Pitch accent
キョ
ウ
Used in vocabulary (63 in total)
going (up) to the capital; going to Tokyo
jinghu (2-stringed Chinese instrument played with a bow)
classical Chinese opera
mizuna (Brassica rapa var. nipposinica); potherb mustard
Kyoto (city, prefecture)
Kyoto Prefecture (Kinki area)
new capital; Hsinking (capital of Japanese puppet state Manchukuo; current-day Changchun); Xinjing
Heian-kyō; former name of Kyoto, capital city of Japan from 794 to 1869
being in the capital (i.e. Tokyo, or formerly Kyoto)
Heijō-kyō (capital of Japan from 710-40 and 745-84; located in present-day Nara)
Kyotoite; Kyoto person
Kyoto style; urbanity; refinement
Kyoto woman
Nagoya (city); Chūkyō metropolitan area (most of Aichi, and parts of Gifu and Mie prefectures; centered around Nagoya); Chūkyō region
Kyoto dialect; Kyoto accent
Kyoto vegetables; vegetables traditionally grown in and around Kyoto
Kyoto man; man from Kyoto
the direction of Kyoto; Kansai area; citizens of Kyoto; nobles
British capital; London
standard measurement for the distance between pillars in the Kansai area (approx. 197 cm); Kyoto-size tatami mat (approx. 190 cm by 95 cm)
former capital region (i.e. Kyoto and its environs)
Kyoto dyeing; dyed textiles from Kyoto
Nagaoka-kyō (capital of Japan 784-794)
Kyoto's children; Kyoto's young people, who are noisy and gossiping on the least pretext
Kyoto's children; Kyoto's young people, who are noisy and gossiping on the least pretext
Kyoto's children; Kyoto's young people, who are noisy and gossiping on the least pretext
departure from the capital
traditional Kyoto dance
Kyoyuzen dyeing; Kyoto printed silk
Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
gossipy Kyotoite
vicinity of Kyoto
the two capitals (e.g. Tokyo and Kyoto, Chang'an and Luoyang)
Kyoto products
coming to a capital city (esp. Tokyo or Kyoto)
kyokabe; Kyoto-style wall made from clay, sand and straw
the dreams of Kyoto, the dreams of Osaka
Kyoto University Graduate School
financially ruining oneself by buying too many clothes (as a fabled tendency of the people of Kyoto)
even in bustling cities there are places that have a rural quality to them; (lit.) (even) Kyoto is rustic in places
ruddy turnstone (species of sandpiper, Arenaria interpres)
shrimp-shaped taro variety
Kyoto's children; Kyoto's young people, who are noisy and gossiping on the least pretext
somewhat reddish purple
public official stationed in the capital (under the ritsuryō system)
Ikyōshuu (Muromachi-period dictionary)
Kyoto University of Foreign Studies
Sankyokasei Corporation
Nishinokyō Special Needs School (older name style)
Bunkyō Women's University
Kyoto Animation Co., Ltd. (abbr)
Kyoto Bank (abbr)
Kyoto University (abbr)
style that is fashionable in the capital
water from the capital (Kyoto), rumored to have a whitening effect; type of washing lotion from the end of the Edo period
Examples (3 in total)
When did you come from Kyoto to Edo?
I'd like to walk around the streets of Kyoto in a kimono.
Isn't it hard to remember the streets in Kyoto?