北平

See also: 北京

Chinese

		north	flat; level; equal flat; level; equal; to make the same score; to tie; to draw; calm; peaceful
trad. (北平)		北	平
simp. #(北平)		北	平

北平市政府 (1935)

Etymology

From 北 (běi, “north”) + 平 (píng, “peace, pacification”), used in the sense of pacified or conquered territory.

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): Běipíng

  (Zhuyin): ㄅㄟˇ ㄆㄧㄥˊ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): bak¹ ping⁴
• Southern Min (Hokkien, POJ): Pak-pêng

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: Běipíng
    • Zhuyin: ㄅㄟˇ ㄆㄧㄥˊ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: Běipíng
    • Wade–Giles: Pei³-pʻing²
    • Yale: Běi-píng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: Beeipyng
    • Palladius: Бэйпин (Bɛjpin)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /peɪ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹ pʰiŋ³⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)⁺
    • Jyutping: bak¹ ping⁴
    • Yale: bāk pìhng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: bak⁷ ping⁴
    • Guangdong Romanization: beg¹ ping⁴
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /pɐk̚⁵ pʰɪŋ²¹/
• Southern Min
  • (Hokkien)
    • Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Pak-pêng
    • Tâi-lô: Pak-pîng
    • Phofsit Daibuun: pakpeeng
    • IPA (Xiamen): /pak̚³²⁻⁴ piɪŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Quanzhou): /pak̚⁵⁻²⁴ piɪŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Zhangzhou): /pak̚³²⁻⁵ piɪŋ¹³/
    • IPA (Taipei): /pak̚³²⁻⁴ piɪŋ²⁴/
    • IPA (Kaohsiung): /pak̚³²⁻⁴ piɪŋ²³/

Proper noun

(deprecated template usage) 北平

1. (archaic) Beiping Commandery (in present-day Baoding, Hebei)
2. (historical) Beiping (the name of Beijing during the early Ming dynasty, between its conquest by the Hongwu emperor and its renaming by the Yongle emperor)
3. (historical) Beiping (the name of Beijing during the early 20th century when the Republic of China removed its capital to Nanking)

Usage notes

In the third sense, the most common English usage is Peiping, Pei-ping, or P'ei-ping, all based on the Wade-Giles romanization of Chinese characters which was more commonly used in English during this period of Chinese history.

Synonyms

• (Beijing): 北京 (Běijīng), (literary, or ironic, humorous) 帝都 (dìdū), (historical, archaic) 燕京 (Yānjīng)

References

• 北平郡 on the Chinese Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^zh

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Japanese

Kanji in this term
北	平
Grade: 2	Grade: 3

Etymology

From Mandarin 北平 (Běipíng, “Beiping”)

Proper noun

北平(ペーピン) • (Pēpin) 

1. (historical) Alternative spelling of ペーピン (“Beiping”), a former name of Beijing.

Usage notes

Note that Chinese sources use Beiping for the name of Beijing during its Japanese occupation amid the Second Sino-Japanese War; Japan, however, formally restored the name Beijing (北京, Pekin) during this period in an attempt to legitimize the Chinese state it established there.