Formerly designating where the emperor lived, perhaps a tower (as the scholars suggest) of the emperor's palaces and pagodas built upon an artificial「small, human mound of youth」suggestive of his control over a harem of thousands of young girls (「head palming, orifices, stream emissions of small youths」), and perhaps some boys, as the CAPITAL CITY. Yet, Chinese imperial palaces seem to be constructed large in the horizontal directions, and not so much vertically with tall height, perhaps due somewhat to the many earthquakes in the region.
　The BIG CITY, an unnatural human-created mound of flesh, formerly was where country folks 'went to town' for sex with young service providers and surely could find other entertainment, since all the other essentials of daily life were provided at the rural home…remember, for hundreds of thousands of years human beings had no subways, automobiles, skyscrapers, electricity, smart phones, satellite maps, communication devices, distribution systems and so on. If you wanted to go somewhere, either you walked or you sat upon something that walked. If you wanted to listen to music, you hummed or whistled or tapped your fingers. If you needed something, you made it yourself from existing and available materials found close at hand.
　A「really tall」Chinese wooden tower of 100 meters was constructed about 1,400 years ago in Xi'an/Chang'an, but prior to that all we had were the stone pyramids at Giza (in Egypt). Frankly, building a structure very tall in the good old days required there to be very small living space inside, and most emperors in big cities need a bit more room for themselves and their harems of 3,000 or more concubines. Tall towers were not where lords and emperors lived or wanted to live (lots of stairs all the time, too). Lords and emperors like wide open majestic halls, and these were the hallmarks of capital cities (perhaps the source of that word, hallmark?). Tall towers were mostly religious in nature, as phallic symbols: palming head and orifices of small youthful mounds with streaming emissions. Note that fortunately even today there are not ten thousand billion human beings in China, yet—maybe that was an estimate of daily sperm count production within that orgy of humans built into a heaping mound?
　「Palming orifice of small youth, stream of emissions」「palming the orifice of the small mound」as AN UNCOUNTABLY LARGE NUMBER, almost every primate throughout history for the past million years, at least.

Modern definitions (that generally disregard history) …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may list only pigeonholed definitions, euphemisms, or meaningless mnemonics)
Chinese: capital city of a country; big; algebraic term for a large number (old); artificial mound (old); abbr. for Beijing; Jing ethnic minority
Japanese: imperial capital, final word of an iroha-uta, 10^16, 10000000000000000, ten quadrillion, ten thousand billion, metropolis, Kyoto pronunciation, Kyoto dialect
Unihan extended: capital city
EDRDG: capital; 10**16

Used within names (nanori)
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