深圳

The city of Shenzhen (China) is written in Chinese as 深圳. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Shēn zhèn — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

深圳 is written with 2 characters: 深 (Shēn), 圳 (zhèn). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Shenzhen.