北京人 běi jīng rén

DEFINITIONS

  1. Beijing resident
  2. Peking ape-man, Homo erectus pekinensis (c. 600,000 BC), discovered in 1921 at Zhoukoudian 周口店[Zhou1 kou3 dian4], Beijing

CHARACTERS

北 běi north; northern; northward
京 jīng capital city
人 rén man; people; mankind; someone else