福塔莱萨

The city of Fortaleza (Brazil) is written in Chinese as 福塔莱萨. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Fú tǎ lái sà — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

福塔莱萨 is written with 4 characters: 福 (Fú), 塔 (tǎ), 莱 (lái), 萨 (sà). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Fortaleza.