名古屋

The city of Nagoya (Japan) is written in Chinese as 名古屋. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Míng gǔ wū — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

名古屋 is written with 3 characters: 名 (Míng), 古 (gǔ), 屋 (wū). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Nagoya.