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Mythic Mandarin

京城 (jīng chéng): meaning and stroke order

京城 (jīng chéng) means capital of a country.

京城

Simplified
京城
Traditional
京城 (same form)
Pinyin
jīng chéng

Stroke order of 京城

京

  • Jīng surname Jing; Jing ethnic minority
  • jīng capital city of a country; big
  • 8 strokes

Stroke by stroke

城

  • chéng city walls; city
  • 9 strokes

Stroke by stroke

Meaning of 京城

  1. jīng chéng
    • capital of a country

Radicals of the characters

京
Radical 亠 (Kangxi radical 8) · 8 strokes
城
Radical 土 (Kangxi radical 32) · 9 strokes · 土 on the left, 成 on the right

Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan database. Structure: the shapes a character is written with (BabelStone IDS), not necessarily parts that carry meaning or sound.

京城 in our stories

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  • 明朝的时候，书生顾青去京城考试，路上下起了大雨，只好在一座没有人的老庙里过夜。

    Míngcháo de shíhou shūshēng Gù Qīng qù jīngchéng kǎoshì lù shàng xià qǐ le dà yǔ zhǐhǎo zài yí zuò méiyǒu rén de lǎo miào lǐ guòyè

    In the Ming dynasty, a scholar called Gu Qing was travelling to the capital for the examinations. Caught in a downpour, he had to spend the night in an old, deserted temple.

    From the story The girl in the painting HSK 5

Stories using 京城

Dictionary data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Stroke data: Hanzi Writer data, derived from Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License). Animation: Hanzi Writer (MIT licence). Radicals and stroke counts: Unicode Unihan (Unicode License v3).