阿姆斯特丹

The capital of Amsterdam (Netherlands) is written in Chinese as 阿姆斯特丹. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Ā mǔ sī tè dān — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

阿姆斯特丹 is written with 5 characters: 阿 (Ā), 姆 (mǔ), 斯 (sī), 特 (tè), 丹 (dān). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Amsterdam.