北京

The capital of Beijing (China) is written in Chinese as 北京. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Běi jīng — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

北京 is written with 2 characters: 北 (Běi), 京 (jīng). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Beijing.