牙买加

Jamaica is written in Chinese as 牙买加. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Yá mǎi jiā — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

牙买加 is written with 3 characters: 牙 (Yá), 买 (mǎi), 加 (jiā). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Jamaica.