沈阳

The city of Shenyang (China) is written in Chinese as 沈阳. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Shěn yáng — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

沈阳 is written with 2 characters: 沈 (Shěn), 阳 (yáng). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Shenyang.