马尼拉

The capital of Manila (Philippines) is written in Chinese as 马尼拉. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Mǎ ní lā — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

马尼拉 is written with 3 characters: 马 (Mǎ), 尼 (ní), 拉 (lā). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Manila.