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
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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