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燕京

燕京

Chinese

swallow (a type of bird); (surname); place name capital; Beijing (abbrev.)
simp. and trad.
(燕京)

Proper noun

燕京

  1. an ancient name for Beijing (the name of the capital of the Yan state, one of the powers of the Warring States Period during the Zhou Dynasty)