東京

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東(とう)京(きょう) • (Tōkyō) ^(←とうきやう (Toukyau)?)

東京 (canonical)
Tōkyō (romanization)
Toukyau (romanization)
とうきやう (hiragana historical)

→ Dutch: Tokio

→ English: Tokyo

→ Finnish: Tokio

→ French: Tokyo

→ German: Tokio

→ Khmer: តូក្យូ (toukyou)

→ Korean: 동경 (Donggyeong)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: Tokyo

→ Portuguese: Tóquio

→ Russian: То́кио (Tókio)

→ Spanish: Tokio

→ Vietnamese: Đông Kinh

/tou kʲau/ → /toːkʲɔː/ → /toːkʲoː/
Compound of Middle Chinese-derived elements 東 (tō, “east, eastern”) + 京 (kyō, “capital”).
The city of Tokyo was renamed from 江戸 (Edo) in 1868 after Emperor Meiji moved the capital from Kyoto.

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昨日、東京は曇りでしたか。

Tokyo (a prefecture, the capital city of Japan, consisting of 23 special wards)


京

Second grade kyōiku kanji (romanization)

京人形

京人形 きょうにんぎょう

平城京

平城京 へいじょうきょう


紫

From Old Japanese.
Possibly a compound of 群 (mura, “gathering, group”) + 咲き (saki, “blooming”, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of verb 咲く (saku), “to bloom”).

(historical, colloquial, from 江戸紫 (Edo murasaki, “royal purple”), where the dye is traditionally made in) Edo, the de facto capital of the Tokugawa shogunate


紫

From 縁 (yukari, “affinity, connection”).


江戸

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→ English: Edo, Jeddo, Yeddo, Yedo, Jendo, Yendo

→ Russian: Э́до m (Édo)

/jedo/ → /edo/
Compound of 江 (e, “cove, inlet”) + 戸 (to, “entrance, gate, door”), likely in reference to the local geography. The to changes to do as an instance of rendaku (連濁).
First mentioned in the 吾妻鏡 (Azuma Kagami, “Eastern Mirror”, an historical chronicle), started in 1180 and completed after 1266, in a section dated to 1180.

compound

(historical) Edo, the former name of Tokyo before 1868


上野

上野 (canonical)
Ueno (romanization)
Ufeno (romanization)
うへの (hiragana historical)

From 上 (ue, “up, above; top”) + 野 (no, “area, field”).

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a placename, such as that of a district in Taitō Ward, Tokyo


上野

上野 (canonical)
Kōzuke (romanization)
Kauduke (romanization)
かうづけ (hiragana historical)

⟨kami₁tuke₂⟩ → */kamʲitukei̯/ → /kaũd͡zuke/ → /kɔːd͡zuke/ → /koːzuke/
Originally a clipping of Old Japanese 上毛野 (Kami₁tuke₂no₁ → Kamitsukeno, literally “Upper Keno”).

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Short for 上野国 (Kōzuke-no-kuni): Kōzuke Province, an old province of Japan


都会

東京都議会 w:ja:東京都議会

Clipping of 東京都議会 (Tōkyōto Gikai, “Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly”).


どい

Sound change of どえ (Doe), the reverse of 江戸 (Edo, “Edo”).

(back slang, crime) Tokyo (a major prefecture of Japan).


都議会

東京都議会 w:ja:東京都議会


都民

From 都 (“capital”) + 民 (“people, populace”).

A citizen or inhabitant of Tokyo, a Tokyoite; the population of Tokyo.


江戸っ子

Italian: edochiano

From 江戸 (Edo, ancient name for Tokyo) + 子 (-ko, “child”). Literally “Tokyo's child”.

suffix

A true Tokyoite: one who was born and raised in the Japanese capital and whose parents are from Tokyo. One whose family has been from Tokyo for generations.


東京人

東京 (Tōkyō, “Tokyo”) + 人 (-jin, “person”)


早慶

早慶 (canonical)
Sōkei (romanization)
Saukei (romanization)
さうけい (hiragana historical)

Blend of 早稲田 (Waseda) + 慶應 (Keiō), from the first kanji of the names of the two universities both read with on'yomi.

Waseda University and/vs. Keio University


都営

都営地下鉄

being operated by the (Tokyo) metropolitan government


汐留

Shiodome, an area in Minato special ward in Tokyo, Japan


東男

東男 (canonical)
azumaotoko (romanization)

東男に京女

the manliest men from Edo, the womanliest women from Kyoto

a man from eastern Japan (historically, particularly Edo) where men are often thought of as manlier


都道

都道 (canonical)
todō (romanization)
todau (romanization)
とだう (hiragana historical)

From 都(と) (to, “capital; Tokyo Metropolis”) + 道(どう) (dō, “road”).


渋ハロ

渋ハロ (canonical)
Shibuharo (romanization)

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ハロウイーン ハロウイーン#Japanese

Short for 渋谷のハロウィン (Shibuya no Harowin) or 渋谷のハロウイーン (Shibuya no Harowīn, “Shibuya Halloween”).