京

jīng

abbr. for Beijing 北京[Bei3 jing1]

surname Jing; Jing ethnic minority; capital city of a country; big; algebraic term for a large number (old); artificial mound (old)

a picture of 京 → a grand building raised on a hill

The original image showed a tall structure elevated on a mound, signaling importance and centrality. From that sense of a prominent place came its core meaning: the capital city.

亠+口+小→京

他从京城来,带来了很多新消息。

tā cóng jīng chéng lái,dài lái le hěn duō xīn xiāo xi。

he came from the capital city, bringing a lot of new news.

她下周要去北京,你有什么东西要带给京里的朋友吗?

tā xià zhōu yào qù běi jīng,nǐ yǒu shén me dōng xi yào dài gěi jīng lǐ de péng you ma?

she is going to Beijing next week — do you have anything to send to friends in the capital?

Words with 京

京报

jīng bào

Peking Gazette (official government bulletin)

京族

jīng zú

Gin or Jing, ethnic minority of China, descendants of ethnic Vietnamese people living mainly in Guangxi

北京航空航天大学

běi jīng háng kōng háng tiān dà xué

Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics

京戏

jīng xì

Beijing opera

北京林业大学

běi jīng lín yè dà xué

Beijing Forestry University

燕京大学

yān jīng dà xué

Yanjing or Yenching University, Christian university in Beijing founded in 1919

进京

jìn jīng

to enter the capital

镐京

hào jīng

Haojing (in modern Shaanxi, northwest of Chang'an county), capital of Western Zhou from c. 1050 BC

驻京

zhù jīng

(abbr.) stationed in Beijing

魏京生

wèi jīng shēng

Wei Jingsheng (1950-), Beijing-based Chinese dissident, imprisoned 1978-1993 and 1995-1997, released to the US in 1997

中俄北京条约

zhōng é běi jīng tiáo yuē

the Treaty of Beijing of 1860 between Qing China and Tsarist Russia

京二胡

jīng èr hú

jing'erhu, a two-stringed fiddle intermediate in size and pitch between the jinghu 京胡 and erhu 二胡, used to accompany Chinese opera

More characters with 亠

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