Osaka in Chinese

大阪

Dà bǎn

City in Japan

The city of Osaka (Japan) is written in Chinese as 大阪. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Dà bǎn — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

大Dà
阪bǎn

大阪 is written with 2 characters: 大 (Dà), 阪 (bǎn). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Osaka.

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Chinese rendering follows standard transliteration conventions · for reference