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京

jīng

jīng · ging1 (Jyutping)

  1. short name for Beijing 北京[Bei3 jing1]
  2. Gin or Jing, ethnic minority of China, descendants of ethnic Vietnamese people living mainly in Guangxi
  3. Kinh, the ethnic majority in Vietnam
  4. capital city of a country
  5. big
  6. algebraic term for a large number (old)
  7. artificial mound (old)
  8. surname Jing

Definitions: CC-CEDICT contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 · snapshot 2026-10-09. Display: consolidated readings, linked characters and marked pinyin. Original data

Character breakdown

京

Meaning
capital city
Radical
亠
Strokes
8
Components
⿳亠口小
Cangjie
YRF
Four-corner
0090.6

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