北京人

北京人
Běijīngrén

Beijing resident

2 meanings
MEANING2 meanings

MEANING

  1. noun

    Beijing resident

    • He is a person from Beijing.

  2. noun

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

    • Peking Man was one of the ancestors of humankind.

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CHARACTER ANALYSIS
  • (person turning back; figure of person from behind)ASSOCIATIVE

Two people standing back-to-back represent North, the direction ancients faced away from.

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