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Beijing duck

Beijing duck is the alternative form of Peking duck.

Meaning of Peking duck

Noun

Peking duck (uncountable)

  1. A Chinese dish consisting of roasted duck skin, small pancakes, hoisin sauce and other ingredients.
    • During out third day in Peking, we received word that Premier Chou En-lai would have dinner with us. We sat in a banquet room in the Great Hall of the People and enjoyed a fabulous meal of Peking duck.1980, Gerald Ford, A Time to Heal, New York: Berkley Books, →ISBN, page 94

Origin of Beijing duck

By substitution of Beijing, the Pinyin name of the city, in place of the earlier spelling Peking.

Questions about Beijing duck

What is Beijing duck the alternative form of?
Beijing duck is the alternative form of Peking duck.

Words near Beijing duck in the dictionary

  1. Beihold
  2. Beijing
  3. Beijing Biden
  4. Beijing bikini
  5. Beijing bikinis
  6. Beijing duck
  7. Beijing opera
  8. Beijing operas
  9. Beijing Time
  10. Beijinger
  11. Beijingers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Beijing duck (page history and authors); Peking duck (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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