Vietnam in Chinese

越南

Yuè nán

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Vietnam is written in Chinese as 越南. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Yuè nán — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

越Yuè
南nán

越南 is written with 2 characters: 越 (Yuè), 南 (nán). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Vietnam.

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Chinese rendering follows standard transliteration conventions · for reference