Detroit in Chinese

底特律

Dǐ tè lǜ

City in United States

The city of Detroit (United States) is written in Chinese as 底特律. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Dǐ tè lǜ — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

底Dǐ
特tè
律lǜ

底特律 is written with 3 characters: 底 (Dǐ), 特 (tè), 律 (lǜ). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Detroit.

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Chinese rendering follows standard transliteration conventions · for reference