Chicago in Chinese

芝加哥

Zhī jiā gē

City in United States

The city of Chicago (United States) is written in Chinese as 芝加哥. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Zhī jiā gē — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

芝Zhī
加jiā
哥gē

芝加哥 is written with 3 characters: 芝 (Zhī), 加 (jiā), 哥 (gē). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Chicago.

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