耶路撒冷

The capital of Jerusalem (Israel) is written in Chinese as 耶路撒冷. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Yē lù sā lěng — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

耶路撒冷 is written with 4 characters: 耶 (Yē), 路 (lù), 撒 (sā), 冷 (lěng). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Jerusalem.