上京

じょうきょう
proceeding to the capital (Tokyo)

Reading

Readingじょうきょう
N3 VocabJLPT N3
Kanji上京

Meanings

  1. proceeding to the capital (Tokyo)
  1. going (up) to the capitaln.vs.vi.
  2. going to Tokyo

Homonyms

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Same reading (じょうきょう)
状況 · state of affairs

Real voices: how native speakers say it

These sentences were read aloud by real people — native Japanese speakers — for the open Mozilla Common Voice project. Listen to how a phrase sounds in real speech: the intonation, the pace, the way words run together. Two speakers mean two different people read it — compare them.

いつかの父の上京の前夜、父は子供たちを客間に集め、
いつかのちちのじょうきょうのぜんや、ちちはこどもたちをきゃくまにあつめ、The night before my father's trip to Tokyo, he gathered the children in the guest room,

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke order

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Practice Writing

Practice Writing 上京

The whole word, one canvas per character — with a guide, then twice from memory, every character checked