基督城

The city of Christchurch (New Zealand) is written in Chinese as 基督城. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Jī dū chéng — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

基督城 is written with 3 characters: 基 (Jī), 督 (dū), 城 (chéng). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Christchurch.