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Paekche

Paekche is the alternative form of Baekje.

Meaning of Baekje

Proper noun

Baekje

  1. (historical) An ancient kingdom in modern Korea, one of the Three Kingdoms, existing from 18 BCE to 660 CE; at its maximum covering most of modern western South Korea.
    • The site, yet to be named, straddles the farming counties of Yeongi and Gongju. The capital of the Baekje Kingdom in the fifth and sixth centuries was Gongju, which reportedly has good feng shui.2004 August 12, Andrew Salmon, “Seoul names new location for capital”, in The New York Times, sourced from International Herald Tribune, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Jul 2025
  2. (historical) An ancient language spoken in that kingdom.

Origin of Paekche

From the McCune-Reischauer romanization of Korean 백제(百濟) (Baekje).

Questions about Paekche

What is Paekche the alternative form of?
Paekche is the alternative form of Baekje.

Words near Paekche in the dictionary

  1. paedotrophic
  2. paedotrophy
  3. paeds
  4. PAEK
  5. Paekakariki
  6. Paekche
  7. Paeks
  8. Paektu
  9. paeleo
  10. paeleo diet
  11. paeleodiet

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Paekche (page history and authors); Baekje (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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