杜尚别

The capital of Dushanbe (Tajikistan) is written in Chinese as 杜尚别. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Dù shàng bié — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

杜尚别 is written with 3 characters: 杜 (Dù), 尚 (shàng), 别 (bié). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Dushanbe.