Damascus in Chinese

大马士革

Dà mǎ shì gé

Capital of Syria

The capital of Damascus (Syria) is written in Chinese as 大马士革. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Dà mǎ shì gé — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

大Dà
马mǎ
士shì
革gé

大马士革 is written with 4 characters: 大 (Dà), 马 (mǎ), 士 (shì), 革 (gé). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Damascus.

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Chinese rendering follows standard transliteration conventions · for reference