Penang in Chinese

槟城

Bīn chéng

City in Malaysia

The city of Penang (Malaysia) is written in Chinese as 槟城. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Bīn chéng — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

槟Bīn
城chéng

槟城 is written with 2 characters: 槟 (Bīn), 城 (chéng). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Penang.

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Chinese rendering follows standard transliteration conventions · for reference