What does "beijing" mean?
A direct-administered municipality, the capital city of China.
Beijing
/beɪˈd͡ʒɪŋ/ name
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Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: A direct-administered municipality, the capital city of China.
- Grammar: beijing is listed as name.
- Nearest alternatives: beijing-based, beijing-related, capital city, chinese capital.
- Useful contrasts: countryside, foreign, non-Beijing.
- Usage evidence: A serious epidemic has broken out in Beijing.
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Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 A direct-administered municipality, the capital city of China.
"Liu Lao-zheng sidled right up to Zao-hua and said: “That’s right. I went to Beijing [Peking] to visit with my daughter. Zao-hua, I hear that you have become the workpoint recorder.”[…] Liu Lao-zheng pulled out an abacus from a sack he was carrying over his shoulder. “Huala, huala,” he shook it several times and said: “I bought one in Beijing. I’ll lend it to you to use.”"
- 2 The government of the People's Republic of China. metonymically
"In Beijing’s view, in the absence of an explicit treaty provision, the central line of the main channel—the Thalweg principle—provided a legal basis for delimiting the boundary in the two rivers. On this basis, Beijing claimed that 600 of the rivers’ 700 islands—including Zhenbao Island on the Ussuri River, just 180 miles southwest of an important Soviet city, Khabarovsk—belonged to the P.R.C."
Synonyms
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Example
"A serious epidemic has broken out in Beijing."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "beijing"?
Common synonyms include: beijing-based, beijing-related, capital city, chinese capital, peking, zhongdu.
How do you use "beijing" in a sentence?
A serious epidemic has broken out in Beijing.
How do you pronounce "beijing"?
Pronounced /beɪˈd͡ʒɪŋ/.
Etymology
c. 1958, borrowed from Hanyu Pinyin Běijīng, romanization of the Mandarin Chinese 北京 (Běijīng, literally “northern capital”). The name Beijing was to distinguish the city from Nanjing to the south, and first applied informally during the reign of the Yongle Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, who preferred to rule from Beijing but was obliged to treat Nanjing as a secondary capital by the dynastic injunctions of his father the Hongwu Emperor. The name continued a practice of several preceding dynasties—especially those of nomadic conquerers from the north such as the Jin and Liao—of maintaining a number of separate capitals designated by their cardinal directions.