南京

The city of Nanjing (China) is written in Chinese as 南京. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Nán jīng — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

南京 is written with 2 characters: 南 (Nán), 京 (jīng). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Nanjing.