横滨

The city of Yokohama (Japan) is written in Chinese as 横滨. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Héng bīn — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

横滨 is written with 2 characters: 横 (Héng), 滨 (bīn). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Yokohama.