Lyon in Chinese

里昂

Lǐ áng

City in France

The city of Lyon (France) is written in Chinese as 里昂. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Lǐ áng — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

里Lǐ
昂áng

里昂 is written with 2 characters: 里 (Lǐ), 昂 (áng). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Lyon.

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