Italy in Chinese

意大利

Yì dà lì

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Italy is written in Chinese as 意大利. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Yì dà lì — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

意Yì
大dà
利lì

意大利 is written with 3 characters: 意 (Yì), 大 (dà), 利 (lì). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Italy.

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Chinese rendering follows standard transliteration conventions · for reference