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Pékin
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Pekin pékin Pekín
French
Alternative forms
fr Péking obsolete
Etymology
fr cmn 北京, specifically the Mandarin (late imperial lingua franca) Nanking court dialect from before the modern palatalization of [k] to [t͡ɕ].Kaske Elisabeth The Politics of Language in Chinese Education, 1895–1919 https://books.google.com.ph/books?id=okhrBBmnHVQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=isbn:9789004163676&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=peking&f=false 2008 Koninklijke Brill NV Leiden 978-90-04-16367-6 52 fr Beijing. Compare es Pekín, pt Pequim, en Peking, nl Peking. See also fr Tonkin and fr Nankin Nanjing.
Pronunciation
fr Fr-Paris--Pékin.ogg Paris
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-WikiLucas00-Pékin.wav <<France>> (<<Lyon>>)
fr péquin
Proper noun
m
fr direct-administered municipality/capital city c/China Beijing
fr Beijing
Derived terms
fr Pékinois
fr pékinois
Descendants
fa پکن pekan 1
km ប៉េកាំង 1
References