上海

The city of Shanghai (China) is written in Chinese as 上海. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Shàng hǎi — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

上海 is written with 2 characters: 上 (Shàng), 海 (hǎi). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Shanghai.