peh-king
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.91 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Peking, or, as the Chinese call it, Peh-king, was the starting point of our expedition."
- "Peh-king, Peking, the capital of China, called Khanbaligh, or Cambaluc, by the Mongols."
- "To 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."
- "PEKING, Pekin, or Peh-king, [i.e. ‘the Northern capital,’] the modern capital of the empire of China."