Cairo in Chinese

开罗

Kāi luó

Capital of Egypt

The capital of Cairo (Egypt) is written in Chinese as 开罗. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Kāi luó — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

Kāi
luó

开罗 is written with 2 characters: (Kāi), (luó). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Cairo.

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Chinese rendering follows standard transliteration conventions · for reference