日内瓦

The city of Geneva (Switzerland) is written in Chinese as 日内瓦. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Rì nèi wǎ — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

日内瓦 is written with 3 characters: 日 (Rì), 内 (nèi), 瓦 (wǎ). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Geneva.