Cape Town in Chinese

开普敦

Kāi pǔ dūn

City in South Africa

The city of Cape Town (South Africa) is written in Chinese as 开普敦. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Kāi pǔ dūn — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

开Kāi
普pǔ
敦dūn

开普敦 is written with 3 characters: 开 (Kāi), 普 (pǔ), 敦 (dūn). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Cape Town.

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