亚的斯亚贝巴

The capital of Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) is written in Chinese as 亚的斯亚贝巴. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Yà de sī yà bèi bā — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

亚的斯亚贝巴 is written with 6 characters: 亚 (Yà), 的 (de), 斯 (sī), 亚 (yà), 贝 (bèi), 巴 (bā). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Addis Ababa.