东京

The capital of Tokyo (Japan) is written in Chinese as 东京. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Dōng jīng — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

东京 is written with 2 characters: 东 (Dōng), 京 (jīng). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Tokyo.