Johor Bahru in Chinese

新山

Xīn shān

City in Malaysia

The city of Johor Bahru (Malaysia) is written in Chinese as 新山. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Xīn shān — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

新Xīn
山shān

新山 is written with 2 characters: 新 (Xīn), 山 (shān). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Johor Bahru.

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