Angkor in Chinese

吴哥

Wú gē

City in Cambodia

The city of Angkor (Cambodia) is written in Chinese as 吴哥. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Wú gē — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

吴Wú
哥gē

吴哥 is written with 2 characters: 吴 (Wú), 哥 (gē). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Angkor.

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Chinese rendering follows standard transliteration conventions · for reference