Beijing

See also: bèijǐng and Běijīng

English

Beijing

Alternative forms

• (from Wade-Giles) Pei-ching

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /beɪˈdʒɪŋ/, /ˌbeɪˈdʒɪŋ/

  • Audio (US, /beɪˈdʒɪŋ/)

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• (hyperforeign) IPA^(key): /beɪˈʒɪŋ/, /ˌbeɪˈʒɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɪŋ

Proper noun

Beijing

2. A direct-administered municipality, the capital city of China.
   • 1990, Ronald Reagan, An American Life‎^[1], Pocket Books, →ISBN, LCCN 91-28704, OCLC 495476481, page 369:

     Thanks to some tutoring we'd gotten in Washington, Nancy and I both managed to handle our chopsticks with adequate deftness. We generally heeded advice that Richard Nixon, who'd come to Beijing in 1972, had given us before we left on the trip: Don't ask about the food they serve you at the big banquets, just swallow it. Still, I had difficultly identifying several items on my plate that first night, so I stirred them around in hopes of camouflaging my reluctance to eat them.

3. (metonymically) The government of the People's Republic of China.
   • 2019, Ching-Tse Cheng, “Chinese spy confirms China's involvement in Taiwan 2020 election”, in Taiwan News‎^[2]:

     Wang said that Beijing successfully backed several pro-China politicians, who won seats in the 2018 local elections. He added the CCP desperately wants to stop Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) from being re-elected.
     Wang also disclosed details about CCP's plans to take over Hong Kong and Australia, reported Liberty Times.

Synonyms

• Peking, Pekin
• Peiping (historic), Pei-p’ing, Beiping
• Yenching (historic), Yanjing
• Chung-tu (historic, dated), Zhongdu (historic)
• Khanbalik (historic), Khanbaliq (historic, hypercorrect), Cambaluc (historic, archaic)
• Ta-tu (historic, dated), Dadu (historic)

Derived terms

Derived terms

• Beijing duck
• Beijinger

• Beijingese
• Beijing opera

Translations

capital of China

• Abkhaz: Беиӡин (Beidzin), Пекин (Ṗeḳin)
• Afrikaans: Beijing
• Albanian: Pekin m
• Amharic: ፔኪንግ (peking)
• Arabic: بِكِين‎ f (bikīn), بِكِين‎ f (pikīn), پِكِين‎ f (pikīn) (rare)
• Armenian: Պեկին (Pekin)
• Assamese: বেইজিং (beiziṅ)
• Asturian: Beijing
• Azerbaijani: Pekin
• Bashkir: Пекин (Pekin)
• Belarusian: Пекі́н m (Pjekín), Бэйцзі́н m (Bejczín) (transliteration); Пэкі́н m (Pekín) (Taraškievica orthography)
• Bengali: বেইজিং (bn) (beijiṅ), পিকিং (pikiṅ)
• Bulgarian: Пеки́н m (Pekín)
• Burmese: ပေကျင်း (pe-kyang:), ပီကင်း (pikang:)
• Buryat: Бээжэн (Beežen)
• Catalan: Pequín (ca)
• Chechen: Пекин (Pekin)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 北京 (bak¹ ging¹)

  Dungan: Быйҗин (Bɨyžin)

  Hakka: 北京 (Pet-kîn)

  Mandarin: 北京 (zh) (Běijīng)

  Min Dong: 北京 (Báe̤k-gĭng)

  Min Nan: 北京 (zh-min-nan) (Pak-kiaⁿ)

  Wu: 北京 (poq cin)

• Chuvash: Пекин (Pek̬in)
• Corsican: Pechinu
• Crimean Tatar: Pekin, Hanbalıq
• Czech: Peking (cs) m
• Danish: Beijing (da) n, Peking (da) n (uncommon)
• Dhivehi: ބީޖިންގ‎ (bījin̊g)
• Dutch: Peking (nl) n
• Esperanto: Pekino (eo)
• Estonian: Peking (et)
• Faroese: Beijing, Peking
• Finnish: Peking (fi)
• French: Pékin (fr) m, Beijing (fr) m
• Galician: Pequín (gl)
• Georgian: პეკინი (ka) (ṗeḳini)
• German: Peking (de) n; (only specialist, sinologist also) Beijing (de) n
• Greek: Πεκίνο (el) n (Pekíno)
• Gujarati: બેઇજિંગ (beijiṅg)
• Hebrew: בֵּייְגִ׳ינְג‎ f (beijing), פֶּקִינְג‎ f (peking)
• Hindi: बेजिंग m (bejiṅg), बेइजिन्ग m (beijing)
• Hungarian: Peking (hu)
• Icelandic: Peking, Beijing
• Irish: Béising
• Italian: Pechino (it) f
• Japanese: 北京 (ja) (ペキン, Pekin), ペキン (Pekin)
• Kannada: ಬೀಜಿಂಗ್ (bījiṅg)
• Kashubian: Pekin m
• Kazakh: Бейжің (Beyjiñ)
• Khmer: ប៉េកាំង (km) (peikang), ប៉ីជិង (pəycɨng)
• Korean: 베이징 (ko) (Beijing), 북경(北京) (ko) (Bukgyeong)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: پەکین‎ (ku) (pekîn)

  Northern Kurdish: Beijing, Pekîn (ku)

• Kyrgyz: Бейжин (Beyjin)
• Lao: ປັກກິງ (pak king)
• Latin: Pecinum (la) n

• Latvian: Pekina f
• Lithuanian: Pekinas (lt) m
• Lü: ᦵᦗᦲᧉᦋᦲᧃᧈ (poe²tsiin¹)
• Macedonian: Пекинг m (Peking)
• Maltese: Bejġing, Peking
• Manchu: ᠪᡝᡤᡳᠩ (beging), ᡤᡝᠮᡠᠨ
  ᡥᡝᠴᡝᠨ (gemun hecen), ᡤᡳᠩ
  ᡥᡝᠴᡝᠨ (ging hecen)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Бээжин (mn) (Beejin), Бэйжин (Beijin)

  Mongolian: ᠪᠡᠭᠡᠵᠢᠩ (begeǰing)

• Nepali: बेइजिङ (beijiṅ)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Beijing

• Occitan: Pequin m
• Oriya: ବେଜିଂ (bejiṃ)
• Ossetian: Пекин (Pekin)
• Ottoman Turkish: خانبالق‎ (hanbalık)
• Pashto: بېجېنګ‎ m (beǰing), پيکنګ‎ m (peking), بيجنګ‎ m (beiǰing)
• Persian: پکن‎ (fa) (pekan)
• Polish: Pekin (pl) m
• Portuguese: Pequim (pt) m
• Romanian: Beijing (ro) n
• Russian: Пеки́н (ru) m (Pekín), Бэйцзи́н m (Bɛjczín) (transliteration, academic)
• Rusyn: Пекі́нґ m (Pekíng)
• Sanskrit: बीजिङ्ग् (bījiṅg)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Пѐкинг m, Бѐјџинг m

  Roman: Pèking (sh) m, Bèjdžing m

• Sichuan Yi: ꀙꏢ (bip ji)
• Silesian: Bejdżing m
• Sindhi: بیجنگ‎ (beijing)
• Sinhalese: බෙයිජිං (beyijiṁ)
• Slovak: Peking (sk) m
• Slovene: Peking (sl) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Peking m

  Upper Sorbian: Peking m

• Spanish: Pekín (es) m
• Swedish: Beijing (sv) n, Peking (sv) n
• Tagalog: Beijing
• Tajik: Пекин (tg) (Pekin)
• Tamil: பெய்ஜிங் (peyjiṅ)
• Tatar: Ханбалык (Xanbalıq), Пекин (Pekin)
• Telugu: బీజింగ్ (bījiṅg), (rare) బేజింగ్ (bējiṅg)
• Thai: ปักกิ่ง (th) (bpàk-gìng), เป่ย์จิง (bpèe-jing)
• Tibetan: པེ་ཅིན (pe cin), པེ་ཅིང (pe cing)
• Turkish: Pekin (tr), Hanbalık
• Turkmen: Pekin
• Ukrainian: Пекі́н m (Pekín), Бейцзі́н m (Bejczín)
• Urdu: بیجنگ‎ m (bejing)
• Uyghur: بېيجىڭ‎ (bëyjing)
• Uzbek: Pekin
• Vietnamese: Bắc Kinh (vi) (北京 (vi))
• Welsh: Beijing
• Yakut: Пекин (Pekin)
• Yiddish: פּעקינג‎ n (peking)
• Zhuang: Baekging
• Zulu: please add this translation if you can

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Asturian

Proper noun

Beijing ?

1. Beijing (a direct-administered municipality, the capital city of China)

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Central Huasteca Nahuatl

Proper noun

Beijing

1. Beijing (the capital city of China)

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Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbei̯jiŋː/, [ˈbe̞i̯j(ː)iŋː]
• Rhymes: -eijiŋː
• Syllabification: Bei‧jing

Proper noun

Beijing

1. Beijing (a direct-administered municipality, the capital city of China) (alternative form of Peking)

Declension

Inflection of Beijing (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		Beijing	—
genitive		Beijingin	—
partitive		Beijingiä	—
illative		Beijingiin	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Beijing	—
accusative	nom.	Beijing	—
	gen.	Beijingin
genitive		Beijingin	—
partitive		Beijingiä	—
inessive		Beijingissä	—
elative		Beijingistä	—
illative		Beijingiin	—
adessive		Beijingillä	—
ablative		Beijingiltä	—
allative		Beijingille	—
essive		Beijinginä	—
translative		Beijingiksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Beijingittä	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of Beijing (type risti)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Beijingini	Beijingimme
2nd person	Beijingisi	Beijinginne
3rd person	Beijinginsä

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin 北京. Doublet of Pékin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /be.ʒiŋ/

Proper noun

Beijing ?

1. (chiefly Canada) Synonym of Pékin

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Norwegian Bokmål

China Central Television Headquarters, located in Beijing, China.

Alternative forms

• Peking (“Peking”)

Etymology

From Mandarin Chinese 北京 (“Beijing”), first part from 北 (“northern”), from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ba (“to carry (on back), shoulder”). Last part from 京 (“capital”), either from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-gaŋ (“hill, ridge, mountain”), or of Austroasiatic origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bæjˈdʒɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɪŋ
• Hyphenation: Bei‧jing

Proper noun

Beijing

1. Beijing (the capital city of China)

   Historisk har Beijing først og fremst vært et sentrum for administrasjon, kultur og åndsliv.

   Historically, Beijing has primarily been a center of administration, culture and intellectual life.

Derived terms

• beijinger (“Beijinger”)
• beijingsk (“Beijingese”)

References

• “Beijing” in Store norske leksikon

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Portuguese

Etymology

From Mandarin 北京. Doublet of Pequim.

Proper noun

Beijing f

1. Synonym of Pequim

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin 北京.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [bejˈʒiŋ], [bejˈʒiŋɡ]

Proper noun

Beijing n

1. Beijing (a direct-administered municipality, the capital city of China)

Declension

declension of Beijing (singular only)

	singular
n gender	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(un) Beijing	Beijingul
genitive/dative	(unui) Beijing	Beijingului
vocative	Beijingule

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Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Mandarin 北京. Doublet of Pekín.

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /beiˈʝin/, [bei̯ˈʝĩn]

• IPA^(key): (everywhere but Argentina and Uruguay) /beiˈʝin/, [bei̯ˈʝĩn]
• IPA^(key): (Buenos Aires and environs) /beiˈʃin/, [bei̯ˈʃĩn]
• IPA^(key): (elsewhere in Argentina and Uruguay) /beiˈʒin/, [bei̯ˈʒĩn]

Proper noun

Beijing ?

1. Synonym of Pekín