海得拉巴

The city of Hyderabad (India) is written in Chinese as 海得拉巴. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Hǎi dé lā bā — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

海得拉巴 is written with 4 characters: 海 (Hǎi), 得 (dé), 拉 (lā), 巴 (bā). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Hyderabad.