Macau in Chinese

澳门

Ào mén

City in China

The city of Macau (China) is written in Chinese as 澳门. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Ào mén — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

澳Ào
门mén

澳门 is written with 2 characters: 澳 (Ào), 门 (mén). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Macau.

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