• ozymandias117@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    That is an interesting rabbit hole. I’m reading the correct pronunciation is more like “pay-cheeng” (even if not the official spelling)?

    Should the “B” be as hard as we normally pronounce it in America?

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      2 years ago

      My Chinese friends always pronounced it like an English ‘B’. It might be regional.

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        2 years ago

        It is likely you are confused by the hen and egg problem of why your friend said Beijing when reading Peking. He simply skipped and ignored what was written bc he knew it was the equivalent of his own languages main capital city so he just used mandarin word for it.