San Francisco in Chinese

旧金山

Jiù jīn shān

City in United States

The city of San Francisco (United States) is written in Chinese as 旧金山. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Jiù jīn shān — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

旧Jiù
金jīn
山shān

旧金山 is written with 3 characters: 旧 (Jiù), 金 (jīn), 山 (shān). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of San Francisco.

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Chinese rendering follows standard transliteration conventions · for reference