Medan in Chinese

棉兰

Mián lán

City in Indonesia

The city of Medan (Indonesia) is written in Chinese as 棉兰. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Mián lán — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

棉Mián
兰lán

棉兰 is written with 2 characters: 棉 (Mián), 兰 (lán). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Medan.

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