杭州

The city of Hangzhou (China) is written in Chinese as 杭州. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Háng zhōu — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

杭州 is written with 2 characters: 杭 (Háng), 州 (zhōu). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Hangzhou.