阿富汗

Afghanistan is written in Chinese as 阿富汗. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Ā fù hàn — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

阿富汗 is written with 3 characters: 阿 (Ā), 富 (fù), 汗 (hàn). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Afghanistan.