Busan in Chinese

釜山

Fǔ shān

City in South Korea

The city of Busan (South Korea) is written in Chinese as 釜山. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Fǔ shān — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

釜Fǔ
山shān

釜山 is written with 2 characters: 釜 (Fǔ), 山 (shān). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Busan.

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Chinese rendering follows standard transliteration conventions · for reference