# Beijing

> English word · Proper noun · IPA /beɪˈd͡ʒɪŋ/ · frequency rank #5,858

## Definitions
1. A direct-administered municipality, the capital city of China.
2. The government of the People's Republic of China.

## Etymology
c. 1958, borrowed from Hanyu Pinyin Běijīng, romanization of the Mandarin Chinese 北京 (Běijīng, literally “northern capital”).
The name Beijing was to distinguish the city from Nanjing to the south, and first applied informally during the reign of the Yongle Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, who preferred to rule from Beijing but was obliged to treat Nanjing as a secondary capital by the dynastic injunctions of his father the Hongwu Emperor. The name continued a practice of several preceding dynasties—especially those of nomadic conquerers from the north such as the Jin and Liao—of maintaining a number of separate capitals designated by their cardinal directions.

## Easily confused with
- **being** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/beijing-vs-being)
- **biting** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/beijing-vs-biting)
- **biking** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/beijing-vs-biking)
- **Bering** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/beijing-vs-bering)
- **betting** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/beijing-vs-betting)
- **boiling** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/beijing-vs-boiling)
- **bending** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/beijing-vs-bending)
- **bribing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/beijing-vs-bribing)
- **belting** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/beijing-vs-belting)
- **beating** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/beating-vs-beijing)
- **bearing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bearing-vs-beijing)
- **begging** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/begging-vs-beijing)
- **bedding** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bedding-vs-beijing)
- **beaming** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/beaming-vs-beijing)
- **baiting** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/baiting-vs-beijing)
- **bailing** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/bailing-vs-beijing)
- **beeping** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/beeping-vs-beijing)

## Common misspellings (10)
`bbeijing`, `beiijng`, `beijign`, `beijingg`, `beijinng`, `beijjing`, `beijnig`, `bejiing`, `biejing`, `ebijing`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/beijing