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首都

shǒu dū

HSK 3 · word 1900 of 3,000

Meaning

• capital (city)

Measure word

个 gè

Example sentence

Characters in 首都

• 首 shǒu head
• 都 dōu all; both; entirely

首 the head plus 都, here dū, a metropolis. The head city — read dōu the same character means all.

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