洛杉矶

The city of Los Angeles (United States) is written in Chinese as 洛杉矶. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Luò shān jī — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

洛杉矶 is written with 3 characters: 洛 (Luò), 杉 (shān), 矶 (jī). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Los Angeles.