天津

The city of Tianjin (China) is written in Chinese as 天津. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Tiān jīn — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

天津 is written with 2 characters: 天 (Tiān), 津 (jīn). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Tianjin.