Fukuoka in Chinese

福冈

Fú gāng

City in Japan

The city of Fukuoka (Japan) is written in Chinese as 福冈. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Fú gāng — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

福Fú
冈gāng

福冈 is written with 2 characters: 福 (Fú), 冈 (gāng). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Fukuoka.

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Chinese rendering follows standard transliteration conventions · for reference