澳大利亚

Australia is written in Chinese as 澳大利亚. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Ào dà lì yà — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

澳大利亚 is written with 4 characters: 澳 (Ào), 大 (dà), 利 (lì), 亚 (yà). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Australia.