The story
- Middle Chinese · derived from東“east”
- English todayTokyo
Borrowed from Japanese 東(とう)京(きょう) (Tōkyō, literally “eastern capital”), as opposed to Kyoto in the west, from Middle Chinese 東 (tuwng, “east”) + 京 (kjaeng, “capital”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.