巴塞尔

The city of Basel (Switzerland) is written in Chinese as 巴塞尔. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Bā sāi ěr — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

巴塞尔 is written with 3 characters: 巴 (Bā), 塞 (sāi), 尔 (ěr). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Basel.