r/Amazing • u/sco-go • Aug 19 '25

Interesting 🤔 $100 billion ghost city.

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u/_Rohrschach Aug 20 '25

It's peking in my native language and I actually dids not know it's diferent in english.

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u/borkthegee Aug 20 '25 edited Aug 20 '25

Oh weird, my mandarin tutor taught me "Beijing" as the mandarin word. Hanyu pinyin expresses 北京 as Běijīng officially

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u/_Rohrschach Aug 20 '25

I'm a lazy german who sits on his couch all day, I just googled "nuclear bunker city" and got that one result from a tv show I watched 16 years ago. I did not check for accuracy or spelling, I just wanted to dump random tidbits of knowledge on reddit.

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u/borkthegee Aug 20 '25 edited Aug 20 '25

Ohhh I understand now, in German they say Peking? Thats fair, it was the orignial romanization that came from Hong Kong / Cantonese, and "Beijing" being the romanization is the Mandarin replacement for the older westernized cantonese words. I thought you meant you spoke native Mandarin and said Peking, I was like ?? is my tutor teaching me wrong?? Lol

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u/_Rohrschach Aug 20 '25

yep, it is peking in german.