411 REFERENCE · Wiktionary
Pekín
Reference material by Wiktionary contributors. This retains its source identity and is not 411 news reporting.
Pekin Pékin pékin
Spanish
es:
Alternative forms
es Pequín
Etymology
From the Mandarin (late imperial lingua franca) Nanking court dialect es cmn 北京 Běijīng, reinforced by es zh-postal - 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 Compare pt Pequim, en Peking, tl Peking.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
es direct-administered municipality/capital city c/China Beijing
Derived terms
es pekinés aquí y en Pekín
References
es exonyms