加尔各答

The city of Kolkata (India) is written in Chinese as 加尔各答. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Jiā ěr gè dá — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

加尔各答 is written with 4 characters: 加 (Jiā), 尔 (ěr), 各 (gè), 答 (dá). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Kolkata.