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語源

Borrowed from Japanese 京(きょう)都(と) (Kyōto, literally “capital city”), from Middle Chinese 京都 (kjæng-tu, “capital (of a country)”).

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈkjoʊtoʊ/, /kiˈjoʊtoʊ/

固有名詞

Kyoto

1. A prefecture of Japan.
2. The capital city of Kyoto Prefecture, Japan, and the country's former capital.
   • 1987 June 7, Amanda Mayer Stinchecum, “Shopper's World: Osaka's Flavorful Feast of Noodles”, in The New York Times‎, archived from the original on 5 May 2017:

     The aversion to public displays of eating persists today not only in Kyoto but also throughout the higher levels of Japanese society.

3. (international law) The Kyoto Protocol.
   • 2013, Stewart Lockie, David A. Sonnenfeld, Dana R. Fisher, Routledge International Handbook of Social and Environmental Change, Routledge, →ISBN, page 112:

     The merits and limitations of Kyoto have been subject to great discussion. Some criticize the regime for being too top-down, wasteful and infective as a means of tacking climate change (Prins and Rayner 2007; Victor 2001).

参考

Further reading

• Kyoto on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Kyoto Protocol on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

アナグラム

• Tokyo, Tôkyô, Tōkyō