How do you say Taiwan in Chinese?

Taiwan in Chinese is 台湾, pronounced Tái wān in Mandarin pinyin.

What is the Chinese name for Taiwan?

The standard Chinese name for Taiwan (Taiwan) is 台湾 (Tái wān).

Taiwan in Chinese

台湾

Tái wān

Country

Taiwan is written in Chinese as 台湾. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Tái wān — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

台Tái

湾wān

台湾 is written with 2 characters: 台 (Tái), 湾 (wān). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Taiwan.

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Chinese rendering follows standard transliteration conventions · for reference