Peh-king

English Proper noun 1 1 en Beijing. en 1876 Nikolai M. Przhevalsky Peking—First Impressions Mongolia, the Tangut Country, and the Solitudes of Northern Tibet https://archive.org/details/mongoliatangutco01przh London Chapman and Hall Peking, or, as the Chinese call it, Peh-king, was the starting point of our expedition. en 1877 A Vocabulary of Proper Names, in Chinese and English, of Places, Persons, Tribes, and Sects, in China, Japan, Corea, Annam, Siam, Burmah, the Straits and Adjacent Countries https://archive.org/details/vocabularyofprop00smitrich Shanghai American Presbyterian Mission Press Peh-king, Peking, the capital of China, called Khanbaligh, or Cambaluc, by the Mongols. en 1894-11-08 Chinese Geography https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn86063034/1894-11-08/ed-1/seq-5/ The Morning News Savannah, Georgia To begin with the cardinal points: North, south, east and west are, respectively, Peh, Nan, Tung and Si; so that the important city which we generally call Pekin is, in fact, Peh King, and means northern capital. en 1901 A Gazetteer of the World: Dictionary of Geographical Knowledge https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.08185 PEKING, Pekin, or Peh-king, [i.e. ‘the Northern capital,’] the modern capital of the empire of China.