印第安纳波利斯

The city of Indianapolis (United States) is written in Chinese as 印第安纳波利斯. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Yìn dì ān nà bō lì sī — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

印第安纳波利斯 is written with 7 characters: 印 (Yìn), 第 (dì), 安 (ān), 纳 (nà), 波 (bō), 利 (lì), 斯 (sī). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Indianapolis.