Meanings
- obsoleteObsolete form of Beijing.
Peking, or, as the Chinese call it, Peh-king, was the starting point of our expedition.
1876, Nikolai M. Przhevalsky, “Peking—First Impressions”, in Mongolia, the Tangut Country, and the Solitudes of Northern Tibet, London: Chapman and Hall3 more examples
Peh-king, Peking, the capital of China, called Khanbaligh, or Cambaluc, by the Mongols.
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, Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission PressTo 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.
1894 November 8, “Chinese Geography”, in The Morning News, Savannah, GeorgiaPEKING, Pekin, or Peh-king, [i.e. ‘the Northern capital,’] the modern capital of the empire of China.
1901, A Gazetteer of the World: Dictionary of Geographical Knowledge
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