京师同文馆 jīngshītóngwénguǎn Tongwen Guan Origin Definitions Defs Strokes Stroke Words Sentences Sents 京师 京師 jīngshī capital city (literary) the capital of a country同文馆 同文館 tóngwénguǎn Tongwen Guan (Qing Dynasty) A 19th-century college in Beijing that trained translators for the diplomatic corps; established in 1862 and absorbed by the Imperial University in 1902.