Phonetic Loan Characters 假借 Jiǎjiè these characters were representing homophone unrelated to the meaning of the new word they represent. These characters have new written form that better reflects the changed pronunciation.
From the accents we know shàng is pronounced in the fourth falling tone while hǎi is third tone low flat.
How to read mandarin characters. In Chinese characters Shanghai is written 上海.
The pinyin shàng hǎi tells you how to pronounce those characters. Likewise 北京 the characters for Beijing is written in pinyin as běi jīng.
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