Colombo in Chinese

科伦坡

Kē lún pō

City in Sri Lanka

The city of Colombo (Sri Lanka) is written in Chinese as 科伦坡. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Kē lún pō — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

lún

科伦坡 is written with 3 characters: (), (lún), (). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Colombo.

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Chinese rendering follows standard transliteration conventions · for reference