Calgary in Chinese

卡尔加里

Kǎ ěr jiā lǐ

City in Canada

The city of Calgary (Canada) is written in Chinese as 卡尔加里. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Kǎ ěr jiā lǐ — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

ěr
jiā

卡尔加里 is written with 4 characters: (), (ěr), (jiā), (). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Calgary.

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Chinese rendering follows standard transliteration conventions · for reference