Babylon in Chinese

巴比伦

Bā bǐ lún

City in Iraq

The city of Babylon (Iraq) is written in Chinese as 巴比伦. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Bā bǐ lún — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

巴Bā
比bǐ
伦lún

巴比伦 is written with 3 characters: 巴 (Bā), 比 (bǐ), 伦 (lún). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Babylon.

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Chinese rendering follows standard transliteration conventions · for reference