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Tokyo.

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

5 characters2 syllables approx.Norsk bokmål language

Meaning & usage

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

    Tokyo er Japans økonomiske sentrum og midtpunkt i verdens største by- og industriregion.
Where this word comes from

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.

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.