Peking
English
Etymology
From the Postal Map romanization of Mandarin Chinese 北京 (Běijīng), compare Middle Chinese 北京 (MC pok kjaeng) or Cantonese 北京 (bak1 ging1), itself derived from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French Pékin, a transcription based on the Nanjing-dialect pronunciation
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /piːˈkɪŋ/,[1][2][3] /peɪ.ˈkɪŋ/[1][2] or (rarely) like Beijing[1]
- Rhymes: -ɪŋ
- Hyphenation: Pe‧king
Proper noun
Peking
- (dated) Former spelling of Beijing.
- 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.
Related terms
Translations
Adjective
Peking (not comparable)
- Of or related to Beijing
Derived terms
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 “Peking”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 “Peking”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- ^ “Peking”, in Collins English Dictionary.
Anagrams
Czech
Proper noun
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Derived terms
Further reading
Dutch
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Peking n
Finnish
Alternative forms
Proper noun
Peking
Declension
Inflection of Peking (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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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 | — | |
abessive | Pekingittä | — | |
instructive | — | — | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Derived terms
German
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Peking n (proper noun, strong, genitive Pekings)
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
Hungarian
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Peking
Declension
Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony) | ||
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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 | ||
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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
Derived terms
Interlingua
Proper noun
Peking
Serbo-Croatian
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Pèking m (Cyrillic spelling Пѐкинг)
Declension
- English terms borrowed from Mandarin
- English terms derived from Mandarin
- English terms borrowed from Chinese
- English terms derived from Chinese
- English terms derived from French
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:English/ɪŋ
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English dated terms
- English adjectives
- English uncomparable adjectives
- en:Beijing
- en:Capital cities
- cs:Capital cities
- cs:Cities in China
- Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation
- Dutch terms with audio links
- Dutch lemmas
- Dutch proper nouns
- Dutch neuter nouns
- nl:Cities in China
- nl:Capital cities
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish proper nouns
- Finnish risti-type nominals
- Finnish uncountable nouns
- fi:Capital cities
- German 2-syllable words
- German terms with IPA pronunciation
- German terms with audio links
- German lemmas
- German proper nouns
- German neuter nouns
- de:Capital cities
- Hungarian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Hungarian lemmas
- Hungarian proper nouns
- hu:Capital cities
- hu:Cities in China
- Interlingua lemmas
- Interlingua proper nouns
- ia:Capital cities
- Serbo-Croatian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Serbo-Croatian lemmas
- Serbo-Croatian proper nouns
- Serbo-Croatian masculine nouns
- sh:Capital cities