Athens in Chinese

雅典

Yǎ diǎn

Capital of Greece

The capital of Athens (Greece) is written in Chinese as 雅典. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Yǎ diǎn — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

雅Yǎ
典diǎn

雅典 is written with 2 characters: 雅 (Yǎ), 典 (diǎn). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Athens.

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Chinese rendering follows standard transliteration conventions · for reference