京都

The city of Kyoto (Japan) is written in Chinese as 京都. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Jīng dōu — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

京都 is written with 2 characters: 京 (Jīng), 都 (dōu). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Kyoto.