Kyiv in Chinese

基辅

Jī fǔ

Capital of Ukraine

The capital of Kyiv (Ukraine) is written in Chinese as 基辅. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Jī fǔ — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

基Jī
辅fǔ

基辅 is written with 2 characters: 基 (Jī), 辅 (fǔ). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Kyiv.

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Chinese rendering follows standard transliteration conventions · for reference