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Beiping

/beɪˈpɪŋ/

Beiping is the alternative form of Peiping.

Meaning of Peiping

Proper noun

Peiping

  1. Former name of Beijing.
    • Peiping, one of the oldest cities in the world, and one of the most interesting! He who has not seen Peiping has really not seen the China of fable and history.1934, “Excursion From Shanghai”, in All About Shanghai: A Standard Guidebook, Oxford University Press, published 1983, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 146

Forms of Beiping

alternative formPeiping
alternative formPei-p'ing

Origin of Beiping

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 北平 (Běipíng).

Questions about Beiping

What is Beiping the alternative form of?
Beiping is the alternative form of Peiping.
How do you pronounce Beiping?
Beiping is pronounced /beɪˈpɪŋ/.

Words near Beiping in the dictionary

  1. beings
  2. beining
  3. beinked
  4. beins
  5. Beipiao
  6. Beiping
  7. Beipu
  8. beira
  9. Beira Alta
  10. Beirach
  11. Beiranvand

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Beiping (page history and authors); Peiping (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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