哈尔滨

The city of Harbin (China) is written in Chinese as 哈尔滨. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Hā ěr bīn — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

哈尔滨 is written with 3 characters: 哈 (Hā), 尔 (ěr), 滨 (bīn). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Harbin.