河内

The capital of Hanoi (Vietnam) is written in Chinese as 河内. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Hé nèi — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

河内 is written with 2 characters: 河 (Hé), 内 (nèi). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Hanoi.