Wàiguó dìmíng de yìyīn chángcháng bù tǒngyī, yí ge chéngshì kěnéng yǒu hǎojǐ zhǒng xiěfǎ.
Transliterations of foreign place names are often inconsistent, so one city can be written several ways.
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usage
音译 is the more common word for the method, 'to transliterate'; 译音 usually names the result, in the pattern A 是 B 的译音 'A is a transliteration of B'. The opposite approach, translating the meaning, is 意译.