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CAPITAL OF RED CHINA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Capital of the People's Republic of China in the Hebei province in northeastern China; 2nd largest Chinese city. In Chinese, 'Beijing' means North Capital ('Bei' means North, 'Jing' means Capital)
Synonyms:
Beijing; capital of Red China; Peiping; Peking
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
national capital (the capital city of a nation)
Meronyms (parts of "capital of Red China"):
Forbidden City (a walled section of Beijing that encloses the palace that was formerly the residence of the emperor of China)
Holonyms ("capital of Red China" is a part of...):
Cathay; China; Communist China; mainland China; People's Republic of China; PRC; Red China (a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world)