Beijing

See also: bèijǐng and Běijīng

English

Beijing

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /beɪˈdʒɪŋ/
IPA^(key): /beɪˈʒɪŋ/ (hyperforeign)
Audio (US: /beɪˈdʒɪŋ/) (file)
Rhymes: -ɪŋ

Proper noun

Beijing

The capital of the People's Republic of China.

Synonyms

Peking (dated)
Peiping (historic), 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

Translations

capital of China

Abkhaz: Беиӡин (Beiʒin), Пекин (Ṗeḳin)
Afrikaans: Beijing
Albanian: Pekin m
Amharic: ፔኪንግ (peking)
Arabic: بِكِين‎ m (bikin), بِكِين‎ m (bekin), بِكِين‎ m (pekin), بَيْجِين‎ m (bayjin), بِيجِين‎ m (beyjin), بِيجِينْغ‎ m (bijinḡ), بَيْجِينْغ‎ m (bayjing), بِيجِينْغ‎ m (beyjing), بِيكِين‎ m (bekīn), بِيكِين‎ m (pekīn)
Armenian: Պեկին (Pekin)
Asturian: Beijing
Azerbaijani: Pekin
Bashkir: Пекин (Pekin)
Belarusian: Пекі́н m (Pjekín), Бэйцзі́н m (Bejczín) (transliteration); Пэкі́н m (Pekín) (Taraškievica orthography)
Bengali: বেইজিং (beijing), পিকিং (piking)
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 (Bɨjžin)

Hakka: 北京 (Pet-kîn)

Mandarin: 北京 (zh) (Běijīng)

Min Bei: 北京 (Bă̤-géng)

Min Dong: 北京 (Báe̤k-gĭng)

Min Nan: 北京 (zh-min-nan) (Pak-kiaⁿ)

Wu: 北京 (poq cin)
Chuvash: Пекин (Pekin)
Czech: Peking (cs) m
Danish: Beijing (da), Peking (da) (uncommon)
Dhivehi: ބީޖިންގ‎ (bījing)
Dutch: Peking (nl) n
Esperanto: Pekino (eo)
Estonian: Peking (et)
Faroese: Beijing, Peking
Finnish: Peking (fi)
French: Pékin (fr) m
Georgian: პეკინი (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 (Beijing), 북경 (Bukgyeong) (北京 (ko))

Kurdish:
Sorani: 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
Ossetian: Пекин (Pekin)
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
Sindhi: بیجنگ‎ (beijing)
Sinhalese: බෙයිජිං (beyijiṁ)
Slovak: Peking m
Slovene: Peking (sl) 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)
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

Asturian

Proper noun

Beijing ?

Beijing (capital of China)

Finnish

Proper noun

Beijing

Beijing (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	—
accusative	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		—	—

Romanian

Etymology

From Mandarin 北京.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [bejˈʒiŋ], [bejˈʒiŋɡ]

Proper noun

Beijing n

Beijing

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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