Beijing

See also: Běijīng

English

Wikipedia

Beijing

Etymology

From Mandarin 北京 (Běijīng), composed of 北 (běi) ("northern") and 京 (jīng) ("capital").

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /beɪˈdʒɪŋ/
• IPA^(key): /beɪˈʒɪŋ/ (hyperforeign)

• Audio (US: /beɪˈdʒɪŋ/)

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• Rhymes: -ɪŋ

Proper noun

Beijing

1. The capital of the People's Republic of China.

Synonyms

• Peking (dated)
• Peiping (historic)
• Yanjing (historic)
• Zhongdu (historic)
• Chung-tu (historic, dated)
• Khanbalik (historic)
• Khanbaliq (historic, hypercorrect)
• Cambaluc (historic, archaic)
• Dadu (historic)
• Ta-tu (historic, dated)

Derived terms

• Beijinger
• Beijingese
• Beijing duck
• Beijing opera

Translations

capital of China

• Abkhaz: Беиӡин (Beiʒin), Пекин (Ṗeḳin)
• Afrikaans: Beijing
• Albanian: Pekin
• Amharic: ፔኪንግ (peking)
• Arabic: بكين m (bikin, bekin, pekin), بيجين m (bayjin, beyjin), بيجينغ m (bijinġ, bayjing, beyjing)
• Armenian: Պեկին (Pekin)
• Asturian: Beijing
• Azeri: Pekin
• Bashkir: Пекин (Pekin)
• Belarusian: Пекін m (Pjekín), Бэйцзін m (Bejczín) (transliteration), Пэкін m (Pekín)
• Bengali: বেইজিং (bē'ijin), পিকিং (pikin)
• Bulgarian: Пекин m (Pekín)
• Burmese: ပေကျင်းမြို့ (pekyin:myo.), ပီကင်း (pikin:)
• Catalan: Pequín
• Chechen: Пекин (Piekin)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 北京 (Bākgìng)

  Mandarin: 北京 (zh) (Běijīng)

  Min Nan: 北京 (zh-min-nan) (Pak-kiaⁿ)

• Chuvash: Пекин (Pekin)
• Czech: Peking (cs) m
• Danish: Beijing (da)
• Dhivehi: ބީޖިންގ (bījinga)
• Dutch: Peking n
• Esperanto: Pekino
• Estonian: Peking (et)
• Faroese: Beijing, Peking
• Finnish: Peking (fi)
• French: Pékin (fr) m
• Georgian: პეკინი (pekini)
• German: Peking (de) n
• Greek: Πεκίνο (el) n (Pekíno)
• Gujarati: બિજિઞ્ગ (biji.ng)
• Hebrew: בייג׳ינג (beijing)
• Hindi: बेजिंग (bejiṅg), बेइजिन्ग (be'ijin'g)
• Hungarian: Peking (hu)
• Icelandic: Peking, Beijing
• Irish: Béising
• Italian: Pechino (it) f
• Japanese: 北京 (ja) (ペキン, Pekin)
• Kannada: ಬೀಜಿಂಗ್ (bījiṅg)
• Kazakh: Бейжің (Beyjiñ)

• Khmer: ប៉េកាំង (peekang), ប៉ីជិង (pəychɨng)
• Korean: 베이징 (ko) (Beijing), 북경 (ko) (Buggyeong) (北京 (ko))
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: پەکین (ku) (Pekîn)

• Kyrgyz: Бейжин (Beycin)
• Lao: ປັກກິງ (pâkkiṅ)
• Latin: Pekinium n
• Latvian: Pekina
• Lithuanian: Pekinas (lt)
• Macedonian: Пекинг m (Péking)
• Maltese: Bejġing, Peking
• Mongolian: Бээжин (mn) (Beežin), Бэйжин (Bejžin)
• Norwegian: Beijing, Peking, Pekin
• Ossetian: Пекин (Pekin)
• Persian: پکن (fa) (Pekan)
• Polish: Pekin (pl) m
• Portuguese: Pequim (pt) m
• Romanian: Beijing (ro) n
• Russian: Пекин (ru) m (Pekín), Бэйцзин m (Bejczín) (transliteration)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Пекинг m, Бејџинг m

  Roman: Peking m, Bejdžing m

• Sindhi: بیجنگ (beijing)
• Sinhalese: බෙයිජිං (bayijiṁ)
• Slovak: Peking m
• Slovene: Peking (sl) m
• Spanish: Pekín (es) m
• Swedish: Beijing (sv), Peking (sv) n
• Tagalog: Beijing
• Tajik: Пекин (Pekin)
• Tamil: பெய்ஜிங் (peyjiṅ)
• Telugu: బీజింగ్ (bījiṅg)
• Thai: ปักกิ่ง (th) (pàkkìng), เป่ย์จิง (bpày-jing)
• Tibetan: པེ་ཅིན (pe.čin), པེ་ཅིང (pe.čiṅ)
• Turkish: Pekin (tr)
• Turkmen: Pekin
• Ukrainian: Пекін m (Pekín), Бейцзін m (Bejczín)
• Urdu: بیجنگ (bejiṅg)
• Uyghur: ﺑﯧﻴﺠﯩﯔ (beijing)
• Uzbek: Pekin
• Vietnamese: Bắc Kinh (vi) (北京 (vi))
• Welsh: Beijing
• Yiddish: פעקינג n (peking)

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Asturian

Wikipedia ^ast

Proper noun

Beijing

1. Beijing (capital of China)

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Finnish

Proper noun

Beijing

1. Beijing (alternative form of Peking)

Declension

Declension of Beijing (Kotus type 5/risti)

	singular	plural
nominative	Beijing	—
genitive	Beijingin	—
partitive	Beijingiä	—
accusative	Beijingin	—
inessive	Beijingissä	—
elative	Beijingistä	—
illative	Beijingiin	—
adessive	Beijingillä	—
ablative	Beijingiltä	—
allative	Beijingille	—
essive	Beijinginä	—
translative	Beijingiksi	—
instructive	—	—
abessive	Beijingittä	—
comitative	—	—

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Romanian

Wikipedia ^ro

Etymology

From Mandarin 北京.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [bejˈʒiŋ], [bejˈʒiŋɡ]

Proper noun

Beijing n

1. Beijing

Declension

    declension of Beijing

gender n	uncountable
Nominative/Accusative (Unarticulated)	Beijing
Nominative/Accusative (Definite articulation)	Beijingul
Genitive/Dative (Definite articulation)	Beijingului