First opened Sunday, August 19, 2007
都心
としん
- flat (heiban)
How to read it: a line over a kana means the voice is high there, and ↓ marks where it drops. A kana with no line is low. With no ↓ the pitch stays high to the end and does not drop even on a following particle (が, は).
heart (of city)
Toshin is 都 (to, “metropolis”) plus 心 (shin, “central part”).
Taken apart
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In a sentence
彼はその商売を都心に集中した。
He centered his business on the metropolitan area.
都心では高層ビルが雨後のたけのこのように増えている。
High rises are mushrooming in the heart of the city.
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What Wiktionary says
Quoted line by line from Wiktionary's Etymology section for this reading, taken from one dated dump so it can't change underneath us. Nothing below is paraphrased.
- “From 都 (to, “metropolis”) + 心 (shin, “central part”).”
Source: Wiktionary: 都心 (dump of 2026-09-02), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Reading, meaning and part of speech from JMdict, and kanji readings from KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG).
What the labels mean
- 漢語 Sino-Japanese
- Words built from Chinese-derived morphemes — borrowed from Chinese or coined in Japan out of Chinese parts — read with on'yomi.
- Compound
- Two or more words or stems joined into one.