Word.ws English Dictionary

Beizhili

Syllables: Bei·zhi·li

Beizhili proper noun: a former Chinese province of the Ming Dynasty which contained the capital of Beijing, later renamed Zhili by the Qing Dynasty, and reformed into Hebei province in 1928.

Proper noun

Beizhili

  1. (historical) A former Chinese province of the Ming Dynasty which contained the capital of Beijing, later renamed Zhili by the Qing Dynasty, and reformed into Hebei province in 1928.
    Synonyms:
    Zhili

Synonyms of Beizhili

Forms of Beizhili

alternative formPechili
alternative formPecheli
alternative formPechele
alternative formPeh-chih-li
alternative formPetcheli
alternative formPe-tche-li
alternative formPe-tche-lee
alternative formPei-chih-li
alternative formPeichihli

Origin of Beizhili

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 北直隸 /北直隶 (Běizhílì).

Questions about Beizhili

What does Beizhili mean?
Beizhili means a former Chinese province of the Ming Dynasty which contained the capital of Beijing, later renamed Zhili by the Qing Dynasty, and reformed into Hebei province in 1928.
What part of speech is Beizhili?
Beizhili is a proper noun.

Words near Beizhili in the dictionary

  1. Beitzel
  2. Beitzels
  3. Beitzes
  4. Beiuș
  5. Beizhan
  6. Beizhili
  7. Beja
  8. bejabbers
  9. bejabers
  10. bejacketed
  11. bejade

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Beizhili (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Beizhili.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/beizhili. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.