基普 (jīpǔ) is the Mandarin name for the Lao kip (LAK), the official currency of Laos. It's also the standard transliteration for the Kenyan/East African name element 'Kip-' — most famously in
基普乔格 Eliud Kipchoge, the world-record marathoner and first person to run a sub-2-hour marathon (in 2019).
