路易斯维尔

The city of Louisville (United States) is written in Chinese as 路易斯维尔. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Lù yì sī wéi ěr — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

路易斯维尔 is written with 5 characters: 路 (Lù), 易 (yì), 斯 (sī), 维 (wéi), 尔 (ěr). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Louisville.