Chennai in Chinese

钦奈

Qīn nài

City in India

The city of Chennai (India) is written in Chinese as 钦奈. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Qīn nài — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

钦Qīn
奈nài

钦奈 is written with 2 characters: 钦 (Qīn), 奈 (nài). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Chennai.

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Chinese rendering follows standard transliteration conventions · for reference