塔什干

The capital of Tashkent (Uzbekistan) is written in Chinese as 塔什干. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Tǎ shí gān — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

塔什干 is written with 3 characters: 塔 (Tǎ), 什 (shí), 干 (gān). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Tashkent.