都: kanji meaning and names
Meanings, readings and the names that use it.
Kanji facts
- Meaning
- metropolis, capital, all, everything
- On readings (katakana)
- ト、ツ
- Kun readings (hiragana)
- みやこ
- Readings used in names (nanori)
- くに、ず、ち、づめ、みや
- Strokes
- 11
- Grade
- 3: kyōiku kanji, taught in elementary school year 3
- Newspaper frequency rank
- 123 of the 2,500 kanji most used in newspapers
- Korean reading (hangul)
- 도
In kun readings a dot separates the stem from the ending that is written in hiragana after the kanji (ひと.つ), and a hyphen marks a prefix or a suffix (ひと-).
Names that use 都
These names have a written form that contains this kanji.