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Meaning of 京
Pinyin
jīng
Radical
亠
Strokes
8
Definition
capital / Beijing (abbrev.)
Usage
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京 [jīng]
名
1. 国都（现特指中国首都北京）：capital (currently specifically referring to Beijing, the capital of China).
- ～城. (capital city)
- ～都. (capital)
- ～华 (京华) (Jinghua, referring to the capital as a place of cultural and scholarly significance).
- ～畿 (京畿) (the capital and surrounding regions).
- ～剧 (capital theater).
- ～师 (京师) (an old term for the capital).
- ～绣 (capital embroidery).
- ～菜 (capital cuisine).
2. 大: big.
3. 古代数名，指一千万，亦指一亿兆: an ancient numeral, referring to ten million, also referring to one hundred trillion.
4. 中国少数民族，主要分布于广西壮族自治区（京族）: a minority ethnic group in China, mainly distributed in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (Jing nationality).
5. 姓: a surname.
形
1. 大，盛: big.
2. 悲痛的: sad.
**引例**
- 《说文》：京，人所为绝京丘也。
- 《左传·襄公二十五年》：辨京陵。
- 《淮南子·览冥》：筑重京。
- 春秋时邑名，汉置京县 [Jing town)。故城在今河南省荥阳县东南二十余里: a city name during the Spring and Autumn Period, known as Jing county during the Han dynasty; the ruins are located southeast of 20 miles from present-day Xingyang, Henan Province.
- 南京 ([Nanjing]): Nanjing was the capital established during the Ming dynasty by Emperor Taizu, thus it is still referred to as 京 in "The Scholars".
- 特指北京 ([Beijing]): now specifically refers to Beijing city.
**其他用法**
- 通“鲸” ([whale]): can also refer to a whale.
- 古代数目名十兆为京，一说万万兆为京: in ancient numeral terms, ten trillion is referred to as 京, with another account stating ten thousand trillion is referred to as 京.
- 京江 ([Yangtze River]): another name for the Yangtze River.
- 京报: the official newsletter published by businessmen in Beijing during the Qing dynasty.
**墓地**
1. 如：「九京」: refers to a burial site, for example, "Nine Mounds".
Peking ape-man / Homo erectus pekinensis (c. 600,000 BC), discovered in Zhoukoudian 周口店[Zhou1 kou3 dian4] in 1921
Gyeonggi Province, South Korea, surrounding Seoul and Incheon, capital Suweon City 水原市[Shui3 yuan2 shi4]
Nanjing subprovincial city on the Changjiang, capital of Jiangsu province 江蘇|江苏 / capital of China at different historical periods
Beijing / capital of People's Republic of China / one of the four municipalities 直轄市|直辖市[zhi2 xia2 shi4]
Nanjing subprovincial city on the Changjiang, capital of Jiangsu province 江蘇|江苏 / capital of China at different historical periods
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Input Method for 京
Pinyin
jing1
Wubi
yiu
Cangjie
yrf
Zhengma
sjko
Four Corner
00906
Unicode
U+4eac
Stroke Number Category
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