Peiping

English

Etymology

From Wade-Giles romanization of Mandarin 北平 (Pei³-pʻing²).

Proper noun

Peiping

1. (obsolete) Beijing.
   • 1964, Thomas L. Hughes, Director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, “THE AFGHANISTAN - CHINA BOUNDARY SETTLEMENT”, in Bureau of Intelligence and Research‎^[1], page 1:

     On November 22, 1963, the governments of Afghanistan and Communist China signed a boundary delimitation treaty, the fifth agreement of this nature negotiated by the Peiping regime in recent years.