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京

Mandarin · pinyin jīng#

capital city of a country
big
algebraic term for a large number (old)
artificial mound (old)

Mandarin · pinyin Jīng#

surname Jing
short name for Beijing 北京 Běi jīng
Gin or Jing, ethnic minority of China, descendants of ethnic Vietnamese people living mainly in Guangxi
Kinh, the ethnic majority in Vietnam

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京: jīng · capital city

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ging1 · jyun4

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character · Etymology 1

(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese) capital (city)
(abbreviation, alt-of) short for 北京 (Běijīng, “Beijing”) after 1949
(abbreviation, alt-of) short for 南京 (Nánjīng, “Nanjing”) between 1927–1948
(abbreviation, alt-of) short for 京都 (Jīngdū, “Kyoto”) when referring Japan-related topics
ten quadrillion, 10¹⁶
(obsolete) tall mound
(obsolete) large barn
(obsolete) large; great
(obsolete) ten million, 10⁷
(obsolete) septillion, 10²⁴
(obsolete) A hundred nonillion, 10³²

character · Etymology 2

Gin (ethnic Vietnamese from China)

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