Madrid in Chinese

马德里

Mǎ dé lǐ

Capital of Spain

The capital of Madrid (Spain) is written in Chinese as 马德里. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Mǎ dé lǐ — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

马Mǎ
德dé
里lǐ

马德里 is written with 3 characters: 马 (Mǎ), 德 (dé), 里 (lǐ). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Madrid.

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Chinese rendering follows standard transliteration conventions · for reference