North Korea in Chinese

朝鲜

Cháo xiān

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North Korea is written in Chinese as 朝鲜. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Cháo xiān — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

Cháo
xiān

朝鲜 is written with 2 characters: (Cháo), (xiān). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of North Korea.

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Chinese rendering follows standard transliteration conventions · for reference