Jakarta in Chinese

雅加达

Yǎ jiā dá

Capital of Indonesia

The capital of Jakarta (Indonesia) is written in Chinese as 雅加达. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Yǎ jiā dá — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

jiā

雅加达 is written with 3 characters: (), (jiā), (). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Jakarta.

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Chinese rendering follows standard transliteration conventions · for reference