Etymology

Kyoto

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Today it means: A prefecture on the island of Honshu, Japan. Full definition →

Middle Chinese 京都
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The story

  1. Middle Chinese · derived from京都“capital (of a country)”
  2. English todayKyoto

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

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.