South Korea in Chinese

韩国

Hán guó

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South Korea is written in Chinese as 韩国. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Hán guó — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

Hán
guó

韩国 is written with 2 characters: (Hán), (guó). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of South Korea.

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Chinese rendering follows standard transliteration conventions · for reference