How do you say Djibouti in Chinese?

Djibouti in Chinese is 吉布提, pronounced Jí bù tí in Mandarin pinyin.

What is the Chinese name for Djibouti?

The standard Chinese name for Djibouti (Djibouti) is 吉布提 (Jí bù tí).

Djibouti in Chinese

吉布提

Jí bù tí

Capital of Djibouti

The capital of Djibouti (Djibouti) is written in Chinese as 吉布提. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Jí bù tí — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

吉Jí

布bù

提tí

吉布提 is written with 3 characters: 吉 (Jí), 布 (bù), 提 (tí). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Djibouti.

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Chinese rendering follows standard transliteration conventions · for reference