首都

しゅと
capital city

Reading

Readingしゅと
N3 VocabJLPT N3
Kanji首都

Meanings

  1. capital city
  1. capital (city)n.
  2. metropolis

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.

パラオの最大都市はコロールであり旧首都でもある
ぱらおのさいだいとしはころーるでありきゅうしゅとでもあるThe largest city in Palau is Koror, the former capital.
ニュージーランドの首都はウェリントンである
にゅーじーらんどのしゅとはうぇりんとんであるThe capital of New Zealand is Wellington.
パラグアイの首都はアスンシオンである
ぱらぐあいのしゅとはあすんしおんであるThe capital of Paraguay is Asunción.

Recordings and sentences: Mozilla Common Voice, CC0

Stroke order

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Practice Writing

Practice Writing 首都

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