beijing

Other forms of beijing

plural

beijings·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about beijing

What does beijing mean?

beijing means "capital of the People's Republic of China in the Hebei province in northeastern China; 2nd largest Chinese city".

How many syllables are in beijing?

beijing has 2 syllables: bei-jing. The stress falls on "jing". In IPA it is /ˌbeɪˈʒɪŋ/.

What is another word for beijing?

Close synonyms include Peking, Peiping, capital of Red China. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is beijing a common word?

beijing is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.