Phoenix in Chinese

凤凰城

Fèng huáng chéng

City in United States

The city of Phoenix (United States) is written in Chinese as 凤凰城. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Fèng huáng chéng — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

Fèng
huáng
chéng

凤凰城 is written with 3 characters: (Fèng), (huáng), (chéng). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Phoenix.

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Chinese rendering follows standard transliteration conventions · for reference