Hanja Analyzer
都

都 — do

Meaning and reading as used in Korean (hanja).

Korean reading
도읍 도
Romanization
do
English
metropolis, capital; all, the whole; elegant, refined
Mandarin
dōu
Japanese on'yomi
ト, ツ, チョ
Japanese kun'yomi
みやこ
Japanese usage
Jōyō kanji
School grade
Grade 3
Newspaper frequency
#123 of 2,500
Strokes
10
Radical
邑 (163, 9 residual)
Unicode
U+90FD

Parts that make up 都

  • 者 놈 자 줄기가 무성한 사탕수수‘자·저·도·서’ 계열의 소리
  • ⻏ 고을 읍variant of 邑 사람이 모여 사는 터고을과 지명. 오른쪽에서 ⻏ 로 쓴다

How 都 was formed

Traditional analysis treats 都 as a phonetic-semantic compound involving 者, 邑.

Korean example words with 都

  • 고도古都 Korean gloss: 옛 도읍
  • 만도滿都 Korean gloss: 온 도시
  • 천도遷都 Korean gloss: 도읍을 옮김
  • 도합都合 Korean gloss: 모두 합한 셈
  • 도읍都邑 Korean gloss: 조금 작은 도회지
  • 도하都下 Korean gloss: 서울 지방. 또는 서울 안
  • 대도大都 Korean gloss: 지역이 넓고 인구가 많은 도시
  • 도농都農 Korean gloss: 도시와 농촌을 아울러 이르는 말
  • 항도港都 Korean gloss: ‘항구 도시’를 줄여 이르는 말
  • 국도國都 Korean gloss: 한 나라의 중앙 정부가 있는 도시
  • 도록都錄 Korean gloss: 사람이나 물건의 이름을 적은 목록
  • 수도首都 Korean gloss: 한 나라의 중앙 정부가 있는 도시

Definitions from Woorimalsam, National Institute of Korean Language (CC BY-SA 2.0 KR)

Japanese words with 都

  • 都市とし town; city; municipal
  • 都内とない within the (Tokyo) metropolitan area
  • 京都きょうと Kyoto (city, prefecture)
  • 首都しゅと (national) capital (city); metropolis
  • 都みやこ capital (esp. Kyoto, Japan's former capital); seat of government; capital (of music, fashion, etc.)
  • 首都圏しゅとけん Greater Tokyo Metropolitan area; metropolitan area (of a capital)
  • 都道府県とどうふけん prefectures (of Japan); largest administrative divisions of Japan: Tokyo-to, Osaka-fu, Kyoto-fu, Hokkaido and the remaining prefectures
  • 都心としん city centre (esp. of Tokyo); heart of a city; downtown area
  • 都議とぎ Metropolitan assemblyman
  • 都会とかい city; Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly
  • 都合つごう circumstances; condition; convenience
  • 都立とりつ metropolitan; managed by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government

Other hanja read “도”

Other hanja with radical 邑

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