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Spanish
Etymology
From the Nanking court dialect Mandarin 北京 (Běijīng), reinforced by Postal Romanization from before the modern palatalization of /k/ to /tɕ/.[1] Compare Portuguese Pequim, English Peking, Tagalog Peking.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /peˈkin/
- Rhymes: -in
- Syllabification: Pe‧kín
Proper noun
Pekín ?
- Beijing (a direct-administered municipality, the capital city of China)
Derived terms
References
- ^ Kaske, Elisabeth (2008) The Politics of Language in Chinese Education, 1895–1919, Leiden: Koninklijke Brill NV, →ISBN, page 52