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Kyôto

Kyôto is the alternative spelling of Kyoto.

Kyôto is the alternative spelling of Kyoto: the capital city of Kyoto.

Meaning of Kyoto

Proper noun

Kyoto

  1. A prefecture on the island of Honshu, Japan.
  2. The capital city of Kyoto Prefecture, Japan; and the country's former capital.
    • The aversion to public displays of eating persists today not only in Kyoto but also throughout the higher levels of Japanese society.1987 June 7, Amanda Mayer Stinchecum, “Shopper's World: Osaka's Flavorful Feast of Noodles”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 05 May 2017
  3. (international law) The Kyoto Protocol.
    • The merits and limitations of Kyoto have been subject to great discussion. Some criticize the regime for being too top-down, wasteful and infective as a means of tacking climate change (Prins and Rayner 2007; Victor 2001).2013, Stewart Lockie, David A. Sonnenfeld, Dana R. Fisher, Routledge International Handbook of Social and Environmental Change, Routledge, →ISBN, page 112

Questions about Kyôto

What is Kyôto the alternative spelling of?
Kyôto is the alternative spelling of Kyoto.

Words near Kyôto in the dictionary

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  10. kyūjitai
  11. Kyūshū

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Kyôto (page history and authors); Kyoto (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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