Peking

Examples

• All

• In 1368, he took Peking and ascended to the throne as Emperor of all China.

  Academic text (1996)

• We are pleased that Peking has sped up the pace of its economic reform and opening.

  Academic text (1999)

• I shall start in Peking and move west..

  Cabrini (2024)

• We were supposed to go to Peking but it never seemed to work out.

  The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)

• On one of the wide streets of Peking, a fair was in progress.

  Academic text (1995)

• So, I hear the Peking Opera is fantastic.

  Jumping the Broom (2011)

• An old China hand, he remembers when this city was still called Peking, not that it made any difference.

  Fiction book (2001)

• Imagine me a general, stationed in Peking, or perhaps even Moscow.

  China Gate (1957)

• We attended a Peking Opera in Beijing as a culminating activity one evening.

  Academic text (1992)

• The most celebrated Chinese dish is Peking duck, known for its crispy skin.

Synonyms

B

Beijing

vsPeking

192 1.0

The capital city of China in the northeast of the country

is the older English name for that same capital rather than the modern form

P

Peiping

vsPeking

• Archaic

9.9

Old name for Beijing, the capital of China, used before 1949

is the English former name without specifying the exact historical period

Compounds

P

Peking man

• Specialized

9.9

An early human who lived near Beijing hundreds of thousands of years ago

Surface Forms

Etymology