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Tokyo

Tokyo

See also: tokyō, tōkyo, tōkyō, Tôkyô, and Tōkyō

English

Alternative forms

Tōkyō, Tôkyô

Proper noun

Tokyo

The capital of Japan.

Derived terms

Tokyoite

Synonyms

Edo, Yedo (spellings of its former name)

See also

Country

Japan

Core City of Tokyo

Hachiōji

Cities of Tokyo

Fuchū
Hino
Inagi
Kiyose
Mitaka
Musashino
Tachikawa

Subprefectures of Tokyo

Hachijō
Miyake
Ogasawara
Ōshima

23 Special Wards of Tokyo

Adachi
Arakawa
Bunkyō
Chiyoda
Chūō
Edogawa
Itabashi
Katsushika
Kita
Kōtō
Meguro
Minato
Nakano
Nerima
Ōta
Setagaya
Shibuya
Shinagawa
Shinjuku
Suginami
Sumida
Taitō
Toshima

Translations

capital of Japan

Afrikaans: Tokio
Albanian: Tokio
Arabic: طُوكْيُو m ‎(ṭūkyū), تُوكْيُو m ‎(tūkyū)
Hijazi Arabic: طوكيو ‎(ṭōkyō)
Armenian: Տոկիո ‎(Tokio)
Azeri: Tokio (az)
Basque: Tokio (eu)
Belarusian: Токіё m ‎(Tókijo) (taraškievica), Токіа m ‎(Tokia)
Bengali: টোকিও (bn) ‎(ţoki'o)
Bulgarian: Токио m ‎(Tókio)
Burmese: တိုကျို ‎(tuikyui)
Catalan: Tòquio m
Cherokee: ᏙᎩᏲ ‎(dogiyo)
Chinese:

Cantonese: 東京, 东京 ‎(dung¹ging¹)

Mandarin: 東京 (zh), 东京 (zh) ‎(Dōngjīng)

Min Nan: 東京 (zh-min-nan), 东京 (zh-min-nan) ‎(Tang-kiaⁿ)
Cree: ᑐᑭᔪ ‎(tokiyo)
Czech: Tokio (cs) n
Danish: Tokyo
Dutch: Tokio (nl), Tokyo
Esperanto: Tokio
Estonian: Tokyo (et)
Finnish: Tokio (fi)
French: Tokyo (fr) m, (academic spelling) Tōkyō (fr) m
Georgian: ტოკიო ‎(ṭoḳio)
German: Tokio (de) n
Greek: Τόκιο (el) n ‎(Tókio), Τόκυο (el) n ‎(Tókyo)
Greenlandic: Tokyo
Hebrew: טוקיו ‎(toqyo)
Hindi: टोक्यो ‎(ṭokyo), टोकियो ‎(ṭokiyo), तोक्यो ‎(tokyo), तोकियो ‎(tokiyo)
Hungarian: Tokió (hu)
Icelandic: Tókýó, Tókíó
Indonesian: Tokyo
Inuktitut: ᑑᑭᐅ ‎(tuukiu)
Inupiak: Tokyo
Irish: Tóiceo
Italian: Tokyo (it) f, Tokio f
Japanese: 東京 (ja) ‎(とうきょう, Tōkyō)
Kazakh: Токио ‎(Tokïo)
Khmer: តូក្យូ (km) ‎(togyo), ទីក្រុងតូក្យូ ‎(dtī grong togyo)
Korean: 도쿄 (ko) ‎(Dokyo), 동경 (ko) ‎(Donggyeong) (東京), 토쿄 (ko) ‎(Tokyo), 토오쿄오 ‎(Tookyoo), 토우쿄우 ‎(Toukyou)

Kurdish: Tokyo (ku)
Kyrgyz: Токио ‎(Tokio)
Ladino:

Roman: Tokio

Hebrew script: טוקיו
Lao: ໂຕກຽວ ‎(tō kiāu)
Latvian: Tokija f
Lithuanian: Tokijas (lt) m
Lojban: tokios.
Macedonian: Токио m ‎(Tókio)
Malay: Tokyo
Maltese: Tokjo
Mongolian: Токио ‎(Tokio)
Norwegian: Tokyo
Okinawan: 東京 ‎(とーちょー, Toochoo)
Persian: توکیو (fa) ‎(Tokyo)
Polish: Tokio (pl) n
Portuguese: Tóquio f
Romanian: Tokio (ro)
Russian: То́кио (ru) m ‎(Tókio)
Rusyn: Токіо n ‎(Tokio)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: То̏кио m

Roman: Tȍkio (sh) m
Silesian: Tokjo n
Slovak: Tokio n
Slovene: Tokio (sl) m
Sorbian:

Lower Sorbian: Tokio n

Upper Sorbian: Tokio n
Spanish: Tokio (es) m, (rare) Tokyo m
Swedish: Tokyo (sv)
Tagalog: Tokyo
Tajik: Токио ‎(Tokio)
Thai: โตเกียว (th) ‎(tōgieow)
Tibetan: ཐོ་ཁེ་ཡོ། ‎(tho khe yo)
Turkish: Tokyo
Turkmen: Tokio
Ukrainian: Токіо (uk) m ‎(Tókio)
Urdu: ٹوکیو ‎(ṭokiyo)
Uzbek: Tokio
Vietnamese: Tokyo, Đông Kinh Đô (東京都)
Yiddish: טאָקיאָ n ‎(tokyo)
Zhuang: Dunghgingh

Anagrams

Kyoto, Kyōto

Danish

Proper noun

Tokyo

Tokyo (capital of Japan)

French

Alternative forms

Proper noun

Tokyo m

Tokyo

Italian

Alternative forms

Tokio

Etymology

From Japanese 東京 ‎(とうきょう, Tōkyō, literally “Eastern capital”), from Middle Chinese 東 ‎(tuwng, “east”) + 京 ‎(kjæng, “capital”).

panorama di Tokyo‎

landscape view of Tokyo

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈtɔ.kjo/, [ˈt̪ɔːk̟jo]
Hyphenation: Tò‧kyo

Proper noun

Tokyo f

Tokyo (the capital city of Japan)

Swedish

Proper noun

Tokyo

Tokyo (capital of Japan)