Depending on the dialect spoken, the phonetic translation is going to be different. For example, my dialect pronounces the city name as "Buck Gen" (hard g). Fr

Depending on the dialect spoken, the phonetic translation is going to be different. For example, my dialect pronounces the city name as "Buck Gen" (hard g). From Wikipedia: An older English spelling, Peking, is the postal romanization of the same two characters as they are pronounced in Chinese dialects spoken in the southern port towns first visited by European traders and missionaries. Those dialects preserve the Middle Chinese pronunciation of 京 as kjaeng, prior to a phonetic shift in the northern dialects to the modern pronunciation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing