北京
Běijīng
Beijing
Part of speech · proper noun
Pattern visualization
北north
京capital
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Examples
- 北京是中国的首都。Beijing is China's capital.
- 我去过北京。I've been to Beijing.
Collocations
去北京在北京北京人
Mnemonic
北京 Běijīng "Beijing" — 北 (north) + 京 (capital) = "northern capital". The older "Peking" comes from postal romanization; Hanyu Pinyin renders it Beijing. Japanese 北京 Pekin keeps the older borrowed reading.
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