哥伦布

The city of Columbus (United States) is written in Chinese as 哥伦布. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Gē lún bù — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

哥伦布 is written with 3 characters: 哥 (Gē), 伦 (lún), 布 (bù). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Columbus.