Kaohsiung in Chinese

高雄

Gāo xióng

City in Taiwan

The city of Kaohsiung (Taiwan) is written in Chinese as 高雄. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Gāo xióng — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

高Gāo
雄xióng

高雄 is written with 2 characters: 高 (Gāo), 雄 (xióng). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Kaohsiung.

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Chinese rendering follows standard transliteration conventions · for reference