Maschile

Pékin

Senso (Inglese)

Beijing (a direct-administered municipality, the capital city of China)

Concetti

Beijing

Frequenza

C2
Pronunciato come (IPA)
/pe.kɛ̃/
Etimologia (Inglese)

In summary

Borrowed from Mandarin 北京 (Běijīng), specifically the Nanking court dialect from before the modern palatalization of [k] to [t͡ɕ]. Doublet of Beijing. Compare Spanish Pekín, Portuguese Pequim, English Peking, Dutch Peking. See also Tonkin and Nankin (“Nanjing”).

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