都 (dū)
capital city; metropolis
How 都 is written
- Strokes
- 10
- Radical
- 耂 — old
- Traditional
- 都
- Simplified
- 都 (unchanged)
Components
- 耂 old
- 日 sun/day
- 阝 town
都 has 2 readings
The pronunciation changes with the meaning, so the reading has to be learned per word.
- dū
- surname Du
- dōu
- all; both; entirely; (used for emphasis) even
Common words using 都
- 成都 chéngdū
- Chengdu subprovincial city and capital of Sichuan province 四川 in southwest China
- 都市 dūshì
- city; metropolis
- 京都 jīngdū
- Kyoto, Japan
- 京都府 jīngdūfǔ
- Kyōto prefecture in central Japan
- 全都 quándōu
- all; without exception
- 加德滿都 jiādémǎndū
- Kathmandu, capital of Nepal
- 古都 gǔdū
- the old capital
- 商都 shāngdū
- Shangdu county in Ulaanchab 烏蘭察布|乌兰察布[Wu1 lan2 cha2 bu4], Inner Mongolia
- 國都 guódū
- national capital
- 堯都區 yáodūqū
- Yaodu district of Linfen city 臨汾市|临汾市[Lin2 fen2 shi4], Shanxi
- 大都市 dàdūshì
- metropolis; large city; megacity
- 宜都 yídū
- Yidu county level city in Yichang 宜昌[Yi2 chang1], Hubei
都 in a sentence
台北是一個繁忙的都市。
Táiběi shì yīge fánmáng de dūshì.
“Taipei is a busy metropolis.”
How common is 都?
都 is the 68th most frequent character in written Chinese. Characters up to this rank account for about 35.1% of all running text.
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