马瑙斯

The city of Manaus (Brazil) is written in Chinese as 马瑙斯. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Mǎ nǎo sī — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

马瑙斯 is written with 3 characters: 马 (Mǎ), 瑙 (nǎo), 斯 (sī). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Manaus.