Pyongyang in Chinese

平壤

Píng rǎng

Capital of North Korea

The capital of Pyongyang (North Korea) is written in Chinese as 平壤. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Píng rǎng — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

平Píng
壤rǎng

平壤 is written with 2 characters: 平 (Píng), 壤 (rǎng). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Pyongyang.

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Chinese rendering follows standard transliteration conventions · for reference