Seoul in Chinese

首尔

Shǒu ěr

Capital of South Korea

The capital of Seoul (South Korea) is written in Chinese as 首尔. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Shǒu ěr — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

首Shǒu
尔ěr

首尔 is written with 2 characters: 首 (Shǒu), 尔 (ěr). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Seoul.

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Chinese rendering follows standard transliteration conventions · for reference