京 · capital, 10**16

JLPT N4 kanji. Readings, meaning, and how the character is built.

京 means capital, 10**16. It is a JLPT N4 kanji written in 8 strokes, read きょう or けい. It contains 亠 (kettle lid radical (no. 8)), and at least one further part our source data does not name. It appears in 帰京 (returning to Tokyo).

筆順 · Stroke order

京 is written in 8 strokes, in the order numbered below. Order matters: it is what makes handwriting legible, and it is how the character is looked up in a paper dictionary.

解字 · What it is made of

京 breaks into 1 part.

• 亠 semantic kettle lid radical (no. 8) · top carries the meaning

Words that use 京

Word	Reading	Meaning
帰京	ききょう	returning to Tokyo

Built from the same parts

These use 亠 too. The part keeps its job from one character to the next, which is what makes it worth learning once.

• 六six
• 主master
• 夜night
• 文sentence

Practise 京

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