Tokyo
English
/toʊ.ki.oʊ/, /təʊ.ki.əʊ/
proper noun
Definitions
- (prefecture/capital city in Japan).
- (metonym) The Japanese government.
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese 東京 (Tokyo, eastern capital, Eastern capital) derived from Middle Chinese 東 (east).
Origin
Middle Chinese
東
Gloss
east
Concept
Semantic Field
Spatial relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
東
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Little Tokyo English
- Tokyoite English
- Tōkyō English
- little English
- Tokio Latin
- Tokió Hungarian
- Tokyo Italian
- Tokio Dutch, Flemish
- 東京 Japanese
- 東京人 Japanese
- طوكيو Arabic
- โตเกียว Thai
- టోక్యో Telugu
- Tô-ki-ô Vietnamese
- တိုကျို Burmese
- টকিঅ’ Assamese
- Tokio Slovak
- टोकियो Marathi
- طوكيو Hijazi Arabic
- 東 Middle Chinese
- 東京 Okinawan