How do you say Brazzaville in Chinese?

Brazzaville in Chinese is 布拉柴维尔, pronounced Bù lā chái wéi ěr in Mandarin pinyin.

What is the Chinese name for Brazzaville?

The standard Chinese name for Brazzaville (Republic of the Congo) is 布拉柴维尔 (Bù lā chái wéi ěr).

Brazzaville in Chinese

布拉柴维尔

Bù lā chái wéi ěr

Capital of Republic of the Congo

The capital of Brazzaville (Republic of the Congo) is written in Chinese as 布拉柴维尔. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Bù lā chái wéi ěr — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

布Bù

拉lā

柴chái

维wéi

尔ěr

布拉柴维尔 is written with 5 characters: 布 (Bù), 拉 (lā), 柴 (chái), 维 (wéi), 尔 (ěr). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Brazzaville.

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Chinese rendering follows standard transliteration conventions · for reference