Tokyo

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

English

Alternative forms

• Tokio (obsolete)
• Tōkyō, Tôkyô (romanization of Japanese)

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 東(とう)京(きょう) (Tōkyō, literally “eastern capital”), as opposed to Kyoto in the west, from Middle Chinese 東 (tuŋ, “east”) + 京 (kˠiæŋ, “capital”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtoʊ.ki.oʊ/, /ˈtoʊ.kjoʊ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtəʊ.ki.əʊ/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• Rhymes: -əʊkiəʊ

Proper noun

The 23 Wards of Tokyo (blue), Yokohama (red), Kawasaki (purple), Saitama (pink), Chiba (green).

Tokyo

2. A prefecture, the capital city of Japan.
3. (metonymically) The Japanese government.
   • 2017 June 8, Rotem Kowner, “When economics, strategy, and racial ideology meet: inter-Axis connections in the wartime Indian Ocean*”, in Journal of Global History, volume 12, number 2, Cambridge University Press, →DOI, page 231:

     Tokyo required certain military technologies and some raw materials that its main European ally already possessed, and also needed new markets for its Southeast Asian products in order to keep the local economies alive.

   • 2022 July 1, The Japan Times Editorial Board, “Groundbreaking NATO summit means work for Japan”, in The Japan Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 01 July 2022, Editorials:

     Meanwhile, Japan must bolster its own defenses and substantially increase defense spending to meet new threats. Tokyo should swallow some of its suspicions and move more quickly to rebuild frayed ties with South Korea. It should make cooperation with the United States a cornerstone of its engagement throughout the Indo-Pacific and with NATO. It is a full agenda and there is no time to lose.

Synonyms

• Edo, Yedo (former name)

Derived terms

• midnight in Tokyo
• Tokyoite

Translations

capital of Japan

• Afrikaans: Tokio
• Albanian: Tokio
• Amharic: ቶክዮ (tokyo)
• Arabic: طُوكْيُو (ar) m (ṭūkyū), تُوكْيُو m (tūkyū)

  Hijazi Arabic: طوكيو (ṭōkyu)

• Armenian: Տոկիո (Tokio)
• Assamese: টকিঅ’ (tokió)
• Azerbaijani: Tokio (az)
• Basque: Tokio (eu)
• Belarusian: То́кіа m (Tókia) То́кіё m (Tókijo) (Taraškievica)
• Bengali: টোকিও (bn) (ṭōkiō)
• Bulgarian: То́кио n (Tókio)
• Burmese: တိုကျို (tui-kyui)
• Carpathian Rusyn: То́кіо n (Tókio)
• Catalan: Tòquio (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᏙᎩᏲ (chr) (dogiyo)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 東京／东京 (dung¹ ging¹)

  Eastern Min: 東京／东京 (Dĕ̤ng-gĭng)

  Hakka: 東京／东京 (Tûng-kîn)

  Hokkien: 東京／东京 (zh-min-nan) (Tang-kiaⁿ)

  Mandarin: 東京／东京 (zh) (Dōngjīng)

  Wu: 東京／东京 (¹ton-cin)

• Corsican: Tokiu, Tochiu m
• Cree: ᑐᑭᔪ (tokiyo)
• Czech: Tokio (cs) n
• Danish: Tokyo
• Dhivehi: ޓޯކިޔޯ (ṭōkiyō)
• Dutch: Tokio (nl) n, Tokyo n
• Dzongkha: ཊོ་ཀི་ཡ (ṭo ki ya)
• Esperanto: Tokio (eo)
• Estonian: Tokyo (et)
• Finnish: Tokio (fi)
• Franco-Provençal: Toquio m
• French: Tokyo (fr) m, (academic spelling) Tōkyō (fr) m
• Galician: Toquio (gl) m
• Georgian: ტოკიო (ka) (ṭoḳio)
• German: Tokio (de) n

  Alemannic German: Tokio n

• Greek: Τόκιο (el) n (Tókio), Τόκυο (el) n (Tókyo)
• Greenlandic: Tokyo
• Hebrew: טוֹקְיוֹ (tokyo)
• Hindi: टोक्यो (ṭokyo), तोक्यो (tokyo)
• Hungarian: Tokió (hu)
• Icelandic: Tókýó, Tókíó
• Indonesian: Tokyo
• Inuktitut: ᑑᑭᐅ (tookio)
• Inupiaq: Tokyo
• Irish: Tóiceo
• Italian: Tokyo (it) f, Tokio (it) f, Tochio m
• Japanese: 東京 (ja) (とうきょう, Tōkyō)
• Kannada: ತೊಕ್ಯೋ (tokyō)
• Kazakh: Токио (Tokio)
• Khmer: តូក្យូ (km) (toukyou)
• Korean: 도쿄 (ko) (Dokyo), 동경(東京) (ko) (Donggyeong), 토쿄 (ko) (Tokyo), 도꾜 (ko) (Dokkyo) (North Korea)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: تۆکیۆ (ckb) (tokyo)

  Northern Kurdish: Tokyo (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Токио (Tokio)
• Ladino:

  Hebrew script: טוקיו

  Roman: Tokio

• Lao: ໂຕກຽວ (tō kiāu)
• Latin: Tocium n, Tokium n
• Latvian: Tokija f
• Lithuanian: Tokijas (lt) m
• Macedonian: Токио n (Tokio)
• Malay: Tokyo
• Maltese: Tokjo
• Marathi: टोकियो (ṭokiyo), तोकियो (tokiyo)
• Mongolian: Токио (Tokio)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Tokyo

• Occitan: Tòquio m
• Odia: ଟୋକିଓ (ṭokio)
• Okinawan: 東京 (とーちょー, Tōchō)
• Pashto: توکیو
• Persian: توکیو (fa) (tokyo)
• Polish: Tokio (pl) n
• Portuguese: Tóquio (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਟੋਕੀਓ (ṭokīo)
• Romanian: Tokio (ro)
• Russian: То́кио (ru) m (Tókio)
• Sanskrit: टोक्यो (ṭokyo)
• Santali: ᱴᱚᱠᱭᱚ (ṭôkyô)
• Sardinian: Tokio m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: То̏кио m

  Roman: Tȍkio (sh) m

• Sicilian: Tochiu m
• Silesian: Tokjo n
• Sindhi: ٽوڪو
• Sinhalese: ටෝකියෝ (ṭōkiyō)
• Slovak: Tokio (sk) n
• Slovene: Tokio (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Tokio n

  Upper Sorbian: Tokio n

• Spanish: Tokio (es) m, (rare) Tokyo m, Tokío (es)
• Swedish: Tokyo (sv)
• Tagalog: Tokyo
• Tajik: Токио (tg) (Tokio)
• Tamil: தோக்கியோ (tōkkiyō)
• Tatar: Токио (Toqio)
• Telugu: తొక్యో (tokyō)
• Thai: โตเกียว (th) (dtoo-giao)
• Tibetan: ཐོ་ཁེ་ཡོ (tho khe yo)
• Turkish: Tokyo (tr)
• Turkmen: Tokio
• Ukrainian: То́кіо (uk) n (Tókio)
• Urdu: ٹوکیو (ṭokiyo)
• Uyghur: توكيو (tokyo)
• Uzbek: Tokio
• Vietnamese: Tô-ki-ô, Đông Kinh (vi) (東京 (vi))
• West Frisian: Tokio n
• Yiddish: טאָקיאָ n (tokyo)
• Zhuang: Dunghgingh

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

Anagrams

• Kyoto, Kyōto

Afrikaans

Proper noun

Tokyo

1. Alternative spelling of Tokio

Derived terms

• Tokyoïet
• Tokyoos

Danish

Proper noun

Tokyo

1. Tokyo (a prefecture, the capital city of Japan)

French

Alternative forms

• Tōkyō
• Tôkyô

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /to.kjo/

• Audio:

  (file)

Proper noun

Tokyo m

1. Tokyo (a prefecture, the capital city of Japan)

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtoːki̯o/, [ˈtoː.ki.o], [-.kjo]

• Audio:

  (file)

Proper noun

Tokyo n (proper noun, strong, genitive Tokyos)

1. Alternative spelling of Tokio

Italian

panorama di Tokyo

landscape view of Tokyo

Alternative forms

• Tokio

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɔ.kjo/
• Rhymes: -ɔkjo
• Hyphenation: Tò‧kyo

Proper noun

Tokyo f

1. Tokyo (a prefecture, the capital city of Japan)

Norwegian Bokmål

Kabukichō red gate and colorful neon street signs, entertainment and red-light district at night in Kabukicho, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan.

Etymology

From Japanese 東京 (とうきょう, Tōkyō, literally “Eastern capital”), from both Middle Chinese 東 (tuwng, “east”), from Old Japanese 東 (*pi₁mukasi) + and from 京 (kjæng, “capital”), either from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-gaŋ (“hill, ridge, mountain”), or of Austroasiatic origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtuːkɪʊ/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪʊ
• Hyphenation: To‧kyo

Proper noun

Tokyo

1. Tokyo (a prefecture, the capital city of Kantō, Japan)

   Tokyo er Japans økonomiske sentrum og midtpunkt i verdens største by- og industriregion.

   Tokyo is Japan's economic center and center of the world's largest urban and industrial region.

References

• “Tokyo” in Store norske leksikon

Swedish

Proper noun

Tokyo n (genitive Tokyos)

1. Tokyo (a prefecture, the capital city of Japan)

Anagrams

• koyot