Taipei in Chinese

台北

Tái běi

Capital of Taiwan

The capital of Taipei (Taiwan) is written in Chinese as 台北. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Tái běi — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

台Tái
北běi

台北 is written with 2 characters: 台 (Tái), 北 (běi). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Taipei.

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Chinese rendering follows standard transliteration conventions · for reference