Meaning, origin and history of the place name Tokyo

Type Settlement

Scripts 東京(Japanese Kanji) とうきょう(Japanese Hiragana) टोक्यो(Hindi)

Pronounced Pron. /to̞ː.kʲo̞ː/(Japanese) /ˈtoʊ.ki.oʊ/(English) /to.kjo/(French) /ˈtɔ.kjo/(Italian) [key·simplify]

Meaning & History

From Japanese 東 (tō) meaning "east" and 京 (kyō) meaning "capital city". This is the name of the capital of Japan.

Rootstō + kyō

VariantTōkyō(Japanese)

Other Languages & CulturesTokio(Albanian) Tukiyu(Arabic) Tokio(Armenian) Tokio(Azerbaijani) Tokio(Bosnian) Tokio(Bulgarian) Dongjing(Chinese) Tokio(Croatian) Tokio(Czech) Tokio(Dutch) Tokio(Finnish) Tokio(Georgian) Tokio(German) Tokio(Greek) Tokió(Hungarian) Tokio(Kazakh) Donggyeong(Korean) Tokio(Kyrgyz) Tokija(Latvian) Tokijas(Lithuanian) Tokio(Macedonian) Tokio(Mongolian) Tokio(Polish) Tóquio(Portuguese) Tokio(Romanian) Tokio(Russian) Tokio(Serbian) Tokio(Slovak) Tokio(Slovene) Tokio(Spanish) Tokio(Tajik) Tokio(Turkmen) Tokio(Ukrainian) Tokio(Uzbek)

Same SpellingTōkyō