阿什哈巴德

The capital of Ashgabat (Turkmenistan) is written in Chinese as 阿什哈巴德. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Ā shén hā bā dé — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

阿什哈巴德 is written with 5 characters: 阿 (Ā), 什 (shén), 哈 (hā), 巴 (bā), 德 (dé). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Ashgabat.