Peking
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /piːˈkɪŋ/, IPAchar /peɪ.ˈkɪŋ/
Proper noun
  1. Dated form of Beijing#English|Beijing, a direct-administered municipality/capital city in China.
    • COMMUNIST CHINA: Peking is expanding its naval activity in the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea some 200 miles southeast of Hai-nan Island.
      Back at Tsingkiangpu the Bells had a taste of the unsettled state of China in the years when warlords ruled provinces on behalf of the government in Peking but were virtually independent autocrats clinging to power until toppled by another.
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