Laos in Chinese

老挝

Lǎo wō

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Laos is written in Chinese as 老挝. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Lǎo wō — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

老Lǎo
挝wō

老挝 is written with 2 characters: 老 (Lǎo), 挝 (wō). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Laos.

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Chinese rendering follows standard transliteration conventions · for reference