Yangon in Chinese

仰光

Yǎng guāng

City in Myanmar

The city of Yangon (Myanmar) is written in Chinese as 仰光. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Yǎng guāng — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

仰Yǎng
光guāng

仰光 is written with 2 characters: 仰 (Yǎng), 光 (guāng). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Yangon.

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Chinese rendering follows standard transliteration conventions · for reference