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Pei-p'ing

Pei-p'ing 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 Pei-p'ing

alternative alsoPeiping
alternative alsoBeiping

Origin of Pei-p'ing

From Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 北平 (Pei³-pʻing²).

Questions about Pei-p'ing

What is Pei-p'ing the alternative form of?
Pei-p'ing is the alternative form of Peiping.

Words near Pei-p'ing in the dictionary

  1. Pehčevo
  2. PEI
  3. pei daan
  4. Pei-ching
  5. Pei-kan
  6. Pei-p'ing
  7. peice
  8. peices
  9. Peiching
  10. Peierls stress
  11. Peierls stresses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Pei-p'ing (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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