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Have you ever wondered why in a restaurant we never order Beijing duck, but instead call it Peking like our grandmas did? Well, since Chinese characters don’t much lend themselves to transliteration, English interpretations of how the name is pronounced have changed over the years. The name was given to the city during the Ming Dynasty by Zhu Di, who moved his capital there. “Beijing” is about as close as we can get now to saying it like the Chinese.

• Named after a politician
• Too lengthy to stay
• In hope for a good future
• Named after a tsar
• Modern pronunciation
• Named after the river
• Named after a wrong person
• Bringing back the first name