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{{Wiktionary|京|亰}}
'''京''' is the [[Han Character|Han character]] meaning "capital (city)," and the simplified form of the older way of writing the character, '''亰'''. The character is predominantly used in the names of current and former capital cities within the [[East Asian cultural sphere]].
==Current city names==
* [[Beijing]], [[People's Republic of China]] (北京, "northern capital")
* [[Nanjing]], People's Republic of China (南京, "southern capital")
* [[Tokyo]], [[Japan]] (東京, "eastern capital")
* [[Kyoto]], Japan (京都, "capital city")
==Former city names==
* [[Seoul#Etymology|Gyeongseong]] (京城, "capital city") one of the former names of [[Seoul]] during [[Korea under Japanese rule|Japan's occupation of Korea]]
* [[Shenyang#Manchu period|Shèngjīng]] (盛京, "rising capital") one of the former names of [[Shenyang]] as the [[Manchu China|Manchu]] capital
* [[Changchun|Xinjing]] (新京, "new capital") former name of [[Changchun]] as the capital of Japanese puppet state [[Manchukuo]]
* Gaegyeong (開京, "open capital") or Kaesong (開城, "capital castle"), two of the former names of [[Kaesong]]
* Đông Kinh (東京, "eastern capital"), one of the former names of [[Hanoi]]; see [[Tonkin]]
==Other uses==
* 京 ([[Kyo (musician)]]), a Japanese musician known as the vocalist of Dir En Grey
* The [[Chinese numerals|Chinese number]] 京 ''[[wikt:京#Chinese|jīng]]'' and the [[Japanese numerals|Japanese number]] 京 ''[[wikt:京#Japanese|kei]]'', both meaning ten quadrillion (10,000,000,000,000,000)
==See also==
* [[Kyo (disambiguation)]]
* {{section link|Symbols of Tokyo|Metropolitan crest}}, for the relation of the character 京 to the crest design
* [[東京 (disambiguation)]]
* [[Nanjing (disambiguation)]]
* [[Beijing (disambiguation)]]
* [[西京 (disambiguation)]]
* [[Shangjing (disambiguation)]]
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