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都
Grade Level: 3
JLPT Level: 3
Frequency: 123
Bushu (Radical) Info:
邦 (ホウ, くに)
home country; country; Japan
邑 (ユウ, うれ.える, くに, むら, お, おう, おお, おお)
village; rural community; right village
Henshall Mnemonic:
metropolis is village of many persons
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Stroke Order Diagram (SOD): 11 Strokes
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On-Yomi Reading(s):
ト
ツ
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Kun-Yomi Reading(s):
みやこ
くに
ず
ち
づめ
みや
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English Meaning(s):
metropolis
capital
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- 京都 [きょうと]
Kyoto [K] [D]
- 古都 [こと]
(n) ancient city; former capital [K] [D]
- 好都合 [こうつごう]
(adj-na,n) convenient; favorable; expedient; expedience [K] [D]
- 首都 [しゅと]
(n) capital city [K] [D]
- 首都圏 [しゅとけん]
(n) the capital city (often Tokyo) area (typically within 50 km of city's centre) [K] [D]
- 州都 [しゅうと]
(n) capital (city) of a state [K] [D]
- 遷都 [せんと]
(n) relocation of the capital; transfer of the capital [K] [D]
- 都 [みやこ]
(n) capital [K] [D]
- 都営 [とえい]
(n) operated by the metropolitan government [K] [D]
- 都会 [とかい]
(n) city [K] [D]
- 都議 [とぎ]
(n) Metropolitan assemblyman [K] [D]
- 都合 [つごう]
(adv,n) circumstances; condition; convenience [K] [D]
- 都市 [とし]
(n) town; city; municipal; urban [K] [D]
- 都市ガス [としガス]
(n) town gas [K] [D]
- 都市計画 [としけいかく]
town planning [K] [D]
- 都心 [としん]
(n) heart (of city) [K] [D]
- 都政 [とせい]
(n) the metropolitan government (of Tokyo) [K] [D]
- 都庁 [とちょう]
(n) Tokyo Government Office [K] [D]
- 都度 [つど]
(n) each (every) time; whenever [K] [D]
- 都道府県 [とどうふけん]
(n) administrative divisions of Japan: Tokyo-to, Hokkai-do, Osaka-fu, Kyoto-fu and remaining prefectures [K] [D]
- 都内 [とない]
(n) metropolitan area [K] [D]
- 都民 [とみん]
(n) city populace; resident of Tokyo [K] [D]
- 都立 [とりつ]
(n) metro; municipal [K] [D]
- 東都 [とうと]
(n) the Eastern Capital (now Tokyo); Yedo; Edo [K] [D]
- 不都合 [ふつごう]
(adj-na,n) inconvenience; inexpedience; trouble; harm; impropriety; wrongdoing [K] [D]
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