tokio
/toʊkˈioʊ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.53 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
3
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "I also thank Mr. Charles Lanman, Secretary of the Legation of Japan in Washington, for four ferrotypes taken in Seoul in 1878 by members of the Japanese embassy ; Mr. D. R. Clark, of the United States Transit of Venus Survey, for four photographs of the Corean villages in Russian Manchuria ; Mr. R. Idéura, of Tōkiō, for a set of photographs of Kang-wa and vicinity, taken in 1876, and Mr. Ozawa Nankoku, for sketches of Corean articles in Japanese museums."
- "[…] and making him think of those pallid jade-faced painters of Tokio who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness of motion."
- "The one is between Tokio and Nanking via Shanghai and the other is between Tokio and Peking via Tsingtau and Tientsin."
- "Meanwhile, Tokio responded to British gestures of appeasement and to American lack of "understanding" by concluding the military alliance of September 27, 1940, with Germany and Italy."