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.
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^[1]:

     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
• 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 (Beiʒin), 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 (Pekin)
• Corsican: Pechinu
• Czech: Peking (cs) m
• Danish: Beijing (da), Peking (da) (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 (beijing), פֶּקִינְג‎ (peking)
• Hindi: बेजिंग (bejiṅg), बेइजिन्ग (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)
• Kazakh: Бейжің (Beyjiñ)
• Khmer: ប៉េកាំង (km) (peekang), ប៉ីជិង (pəycɨng)
• Korean: 베이징 (ko) (Beijing), 북경 (ko) (Bukgyeong) (北京 (ko))
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: پەکین‎ (ku) (pekîn)

• Kyrgyz: Бейжин (Beycin)
• 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: Бээжин (mn) (Beežin), Бэйжин (Bejžin), ᠪᠡᠭᠡᠵᠢᠩ (begeǰing)
• Nepali: बेइजिङ (beijiṅ)
• Norwegian: Beijing, Peking, Pekin
• Occitan: Pequin m
• Oriya: ବେଜିଂ (bejiṃ)
• Ossetian: Пекин (Pekin)
• Pashto: بیجنګ‎, بېجینگ‎
• 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)
• Sanskrit: बीजिङ्ग् (bījiṅg)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Пекинг m, Бејџинг m

  Roman: Peking (sh) m, Bejdžing m

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

  Upper Sorbian: Peking m

• Spanish: Pekín (es) m
• Swedish: Beijing (sv), Peking (sv) n
• Tagalog: Beijing
• Tajik: Пекин (tg) (Pekin)
• Tamil: பெய்ஜிங் (peyjiṅ)
• Tatar: Ханбалык (Xanbalıq), Пекин (Pekin)
• Telugu: బీజింగ్ (bījiṅg)
• Thai: ปักกิ่ง (th) (bpàk-gìng), เป่ย์จิง
• Tibetan: པེ་ཅིན (pe cin), པེ་ཅིང (pe cing)
• Turkish: Pekin (tr), Hanbalık
• Turkmen: Pekin
• Ukrainian: Пекі́н m (Pekín), Бейцзі́н m (Bejczín)
• Urdu: بیجنگ‎ (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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Finnish

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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Portuguese

Etymology

From Mandarin 北京. Doublet of Pequim.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bejˈʒĩ/
• Homophone: beijim

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): /beiˈxinɡ/, [bei̯ˈxĩŋɡ]

Proper noun

Beijing ?

1. Synonym of Pekín