Tokyoとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• Tōkyō, Tôkyô (romanization of Japanese)

語源

Borrowed from Japanese 東京 (Tōkyō, literally “eastern capital”), as opposed to Kyoto in the west, from Middle Chinese 東 (tuwng, “east”) + 京 (kjæng, “capital”).

発音

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtoʊ.ki.oʊ/, /ˈtoʊ.kjoʊ/
• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈtəʊ.ki.əʊ/
  • 韻: -əʊkiəʊ

固有名詞

The 23 Wards of Tokyo (blue), Yokohama (red), Kawasaki (purple), Saitama (pink), Chiba (green).

Tokyo

1. A prefecture, the capital city of Japan.
2. (metonymically) The Japanese government.
   • 2017 June 8, Kowner, Rotem, “When economics, strategy, and racial ideology meet: inter-Axis connections in the wartime Indian Ocean*”, in Journal of Global History, volume 12, number 2, Cambridge University Press, DOI:10.1017/S1740022817000067, page 231:

     Tokyo required certain military technologies and some raw materials that its main European ally already possessed, and also needed new markets for its Southeast Asian products in order to keep the local economies alive.

   • 2022 July 1, The Japan Times Editorial Board, “Groundbreaking NATO summit means work for Japan”, in The Japan Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 01 July 2022, Editorials:

     Meanwhile, Japan must bolster its own defenses and substantially increase defense spending to meet new threats. Tokyo should swallow some of its suspicions and move more quickly to rebuild frayed ties with South Korea. It should make cooperation with the United States a cornerstone of its engagement throughout the Indo-Pacific and with NATO. It is a full agenda and there is no time to lose.

同意語

• Edo, Yedo (former name)

派生語

• Tokyoite

参考

アナグラム

• Kyoto, Kyōto