Peking

English

Etymology

From the Postal Map romanization of Mandarin 北京 (Běijīng), compare Middle Chinese 北京 (MC pək̚ kˠiæŋ) or Cantonese 北京 (bak1 ging1), itself derived from French Pékin, a transcription based on the Nanjing-dialect pronunciation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /piːˈkɪŋ/, /peɪ.ˈkɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɪŋ
• Hyphenation: Pe‧king

Proper noun

Peking

1. Dated form of Beijing, a direct-administered municipality, the capital city of China.
   • 2010 December, John Pollock, A Foreign Devil in China, World Wide Publications, →ISBN, page 45:

     Back at Tsingkiangpu the Bells had a taste of the unsettled state of China in the years when warlords ruled provinces on behalf of the government in Peking but were virtually independent autocrats clinging to power until toppled by another.

Usage notes

Although more common in English as late as the 1980s, the Postal Map romanization Peking is now less common than pinyin Beijing in standard English and, although not obsolete, can feel dated or even historical.

The adjectival form Pekingese remains more common than recent updates such as Beijingese and Beijinger.

Derived terms

• Peking duck
• Peking opera

Related terms

• Pekingese

Translations

Beijing — see Beijing

Anagrams

• keping

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Czech

Proper noun

Peking m

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

Derived terms

• Pekiňan
• pekingský

Further reading

• Peking in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu
• Peking in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeːkɪŋ/

• Audio

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Proper noun

Peking n

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

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Finnish

Alternative forms

• Beijing

Proper noun

Peking

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

Declension

Inflection of Peking (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative		Peking	—
genitive		Pekingin	—
partitive		Pekingiä	—
illative		Pekingiin	—
		singular	plural
nominative		Peking	—
accusative	nom.	Peking	—
	gen.	Pekingin
genitive		Pekingin	—
partitive		Pekingiä	—
inessive		Pekingissä	—
elative		Pekingistä	—
illative		Pekingiin	—
adessive		Pekingillä	—
ablative		Pekingiltä	—
allative		Pekingille	—
essive		Pekinginä	—
translative		Pekingiksi	—
instructive		—	—
abessive		Pekingittä	—
comitative		—	—

Possessive forms of Peking (type risti)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	Pekingini	Pekingimme
2nd person	Pekingisi	Pekinginne
3rd person	Pekinginsä

Derived terms

• Pekingin ankka
• Pekingin ooppera

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeːkɪŋ/

• Audio

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Proper noun

Peking n (genitive Pekings)

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

Usage notes

• In German, Peking remains the vastly predominant form of the name in all contexts (except perhaps sinologist literature and the like).

Synonyms

• Beijing (rare)

Derived terms

• Pekingente

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɛkiŋɡ]
• Hyphenation: Pe‧king
• Rhymes: -iŋɡ

Proper noun

Peking

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

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
	singular	plural
nominative	Peking	—
accusative	Pekinget	—
dative	Pekingnek	—
instrumental	Pekinggel	—
causal-final	Pekingért	—
translative	Pekinggé	—
terminative	Pekingig	—
essive-formal	Pekingként	—
essive-modal	—	—
inessive	Pekingben	—
superessive	Pekingen	—
adessive	Pekingnél	—
illative	Pekingbe	—
sublative	Pekingre	—
allative	Pekinghez	—
elative	Pekingből	—
delative	Pekingről	—
ablative	Pekingtől	—
non-attributive possessive - singular	Pekingé	—
non-attributive possessive - plural	Pekingéi	—

Possessive forms of Peking
possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	Pekingem	—
2nd person sing.	Pekinged	—
3rd person sing.	Pekingje	—
1st person plural	Pekingünk	—
2nd person plural	Pekingetek	—
3rd person plural	Pekingjük	—

Synonyms

• Beijing

Derived terms

• pekingi

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Interlingua

Proper noun

Peking

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

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pěkinɡ/
• Hyphenation: Pe‧king

Proper noun

Pèking m (Cyrillic spelling Пѐкинг)

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

Declension

Declension of Peking

	singular
nominative	Peking
genitive	Pekinga
dative	Pekingu
accusative	Peking
vocative	Pekinže
locative	Pekingu
instrumental	Pekingom