Isfahan in Chinese

伊斯法罕

Yī sī fǎ hǎn

City in Iran

The city of Isfahan (Iran) is written in Chinese as 伊斯法罕. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Yī sī fǎ hǎn — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

hǎn

伊斯法罕 is written with 4 characters: (), (), (), (hǎn). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Isfahan.

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Chinese rendering follows standard transliteration conventions · for reference