けい
Meanings
Noun
1. imperial capital (esp. Kyoto)
when read as "きょう"
2. final word of an iroha poem
when read as "きょう"
Numeric
3. 10^16; 10,000,000,000,000,000; ten quadrillion
usu. けい
Alt. forms
Kanji used
capital
Pitch accent
Used in vocabulary (9 in total)
capital; national capital
capital; metropolis; old Kyoto
imperial palace; capital; metropolis; Keijō (name given to Seoul during the Japanese occupation)
Tokyo and Chiba
Kyoto, Osaka, and Kobe
British capital; London
classical Chinese opera
Kyoto inhabitant
public official stationed in the capital (under the ritsuryo system)