Alexandria in Chinese

亚历山大

Yà lì shān dà

City in Egypt

The city of Alexandria (Egypt) is written in Chinese as 亚历山大. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Yà lì shān dà — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

亚Yà
历lì
山shān
大dà

亚历山大 is written with 4 characters: 亚 (Yà), 历 (lì), 山 (shān), 大 (dà). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Alexandria.

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Chinese rendering follows standard transliteration conventions · for reference