Kunming in Chinese

昆明

Kūn míng

City in China

The city of Kunming (China) is written in Chinese as 昆明. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Kūn míng — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

Kūn
míng

昆明 is written with 2 characters: (Kūn), (míng). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Kunming.

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Chinese rendering follows standard transliteration conventions · for reference