Beijing
Syllables: Bei·jing/beɪˈd͡ʒɪŋ/
Beijing proper noun: a direct-administered municipality, the capital city of China.
Proper noun
Beijing
- A direct-administered municipality, the capital city of China.
- Liu Lao-zheng sidled right up to Zao-hua and said: “That’s right. I went to Beijing [Peking] to visit with my daughter. Zao-hua, I hear that you have become the workpoint recorder.”[…]
- Liu Lao-zheng pulled out an abacus from a sack he was carrying over his shoulder. “Huala, huala,” he shook it several times and said: “I bought one in Beijing. I’ll lend it to you to use.”1976 [1966], Hao Ran, “Debut”, in Wong Kam-ming, transl., Revolutionary Literature in China: An Anthology, White Plains, New York: M. E. Sharpe, Inc., →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 92
- The government of the People's Republic of China.
- In Beijing’s view, in the absence of an explicit treaty provision, the central line of the main channel—the Thalweg principle—provided a legal basis for delimiting the boundary in the two rivers. On this basis, Beijing claimed that 600 of the rivers’ 700 islands—including Zhenbao Island on the...1980, Melvin Gurton, Byong-Moo Hwang, China under Threat: The Politics of Strategy and Diplomacy, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 210
- In the Shanghai Communiqué of 1972, we recognized the fact that both Beijing and Taipei viewed Taiwan as part of China but unequivocally expressed our support for a peaceful settlement of the unification issue. While we should not alter the fundamental pillars of our policy, we should consider...1992, Richard Nixon, “The Pacific Triangle”, in Seize the Moment, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 181
- Synonyms:
- Zhongnanhai
Beijing meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
Beijing in Hindi
- capital of China
- बेजिंग bejiṅg, बेइजिन्ग beijing
Beijing in Tamil
- capital of China
- பெய்ஜிங் peyjiṅ
Beijing in Urdu
- capital of China
- بیجنگ bejing
Beijing in Bengali
- capital of China
- বেইজিং beijiṅ, পিকিং pikiṅ
More languagesFewer languages
- Beijing in Telugu
- బీజింగ్ bījiṅg, బేజింగ్ bējiṅg
- Beijing in Kannada
- ಬೀಜಿಂಗ್ bījiṅg
- Beijing in Punjabi
- ਬੀਜਿੰਗ bījiṅg
- Beijing in Gujarati
- બેઇજિંગ beijiṅg
- Beijing in Odia
- ବେଜିଂ bejiṁ
- Beijing in Sanskrit
- बीजिङ्ग् bījiṅg
- Beijing in Sinhala
- බෙයිජිං beyijiṁ
- Beijing in Assamese
- বেইজিং beiziṅ
- Beijing in Nepali
- बेइजिङ beijiṅ
- Beijing in Pashto
- بېجېنګ bejing, پيکنګ peking, بيجنګ beijing
- Beijing in Tagalog
- Beijing, Peking
- Beijing in Arabic
- بِكِين bikīn, پِكِين pikīn
- Beijing in Persian
- پِکَن pekan
- Beijing in Thai
- ปักกิ่ง bpàk-gìng, เป่ย์จิง bpèe-jing
- Beijing in Vietnamese
- Bắc Kinh
- Beijing in Myanmar
- ပေကျင်း pe-kyang:, ပီကင်း pikang:
- Sindhi
- بیجنگ beijing
- Dhivehi
- ބީޖިންގ bījin̊g
Examples of Beijing in a sentence
- Backhoes moved house by house, laying waste to a community called Xitai that was built in a plush green valley on the northern edge of Beijing, only a short walk from the Great Wall of China.2020 August 7, Steven Lee Myers, Keith Bradsher, “Beijing Launches Another Demolition Drive, This Time in Its Bucolic Suburbs”, in The New...
- Beijing regularly faces dust storms in March and April due to its proximity to the Gobi desert as well as deforestation throughout northern China.2023 March 22, “China: Sandstorms blanket Beijing as air pollution spikes”, in Deutsche Welle, archived from the original on 22 Mar 2023:
- In Beijing’s view, in the absence of an explicit treaty provision, the central line of the main channel—the Thalweg principle—provided a legal basis for delimiting the boundary in the two rivers.1980, Melvin Gurton, Byong-Moo Hwang, China under Threat: The Politics of Strategy and Diplomacy, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN...
Synonyms of Beijing
Forms of Beijing
| alternative form | Pei-ching |
|---|---|
| alternative form | Peiching |
| alternative form (dated) | Peking |
| alternative form (obsolete) | Pekin |
| alternative form (obsolete) | Peh-king |
| alternative form (obsolete) | Pachin |
| alternative form (obsolete) | Paquin |
| alternative form (obsolete) | Pequin |
Origin of Beijing
c. 1958, borrowed from Hanyu Pinyin Běijīng, romanization of the Mandarin Chinese 北京 (Běijīng, literally “northern capital”). The name Beijing was to distinguish the city from Nanjing to the south, and first applied informally during the reign of the Yongle Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, who preferred to rule from Beijing but was obliged to treat Nanjing as a secondary capital by the dynastic injunctions of his father the Hongwu Emperor. The name continued a practice of several preceding dynasties—especially those of nomadic conquerers from the north such as the Jin and Liao—of maintaining a number of separate capitals designated by their cardinal directions.
Words formed from Beijing
Phrases with Beijing
Words that rhyme with Beijing
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- sling
- bring
- jing
- ding
- cling
- unstring
- ming
- bing
- ching
- fingerling
- something
- zing
- Byng
- bling
- cha-ching
- ling
- Peking
- peng ting
- Singh
- thring
- Tring
- upswing
- abstinence ring
- aswing
- awing
- badelynge
- bering
- Chongqing
- conserving
- ging
- hang gliding
- hing
- ing
- Jingning
- Jining
- ka-ching
- kerching
- Kunming
- mis-sing
- morphling
- pling
- png
- qing
- Southern Ming
- submitting
- tang ping
- ting
- tinkering
Questions about Beijing
- What does Beijing mean?
- Beijing means a direct-administered municipality, the capital city of China.
- What is Beijing in Hindi?
- Beijing in Hindi is बेजिंग (bejiṅg), बेइजिन्ग (beijing). See Beijing meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use Beijing in a sentence?
- Backhoes moved house by house, laying waste to a community called Xitai that was built in a plush green valley on the northern edge of Beijing, only a short walk from the Great Wall of China.
- What part of speech is Beijing?
- Beijing is a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce Beijing?
- Beijing is pronounced /beɪˈd͡ʒɪŋ/.
Words near Beijing in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: Beijing (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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