伊斯坦布尔

The city of Istanbul (Turkey) is written in Chinese as 伊斯坦布尔. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Yī sī tǎn bù ěr — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

伊斯坦布尔 is written with 5 characters: 伊 (Yī), 斯 (sī), 坦 (tǎn), 布 (bù), 尔 (ěr). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Istanbul.