Mecca in Chinese

麦加

Mài jiā

City in Saudi Arabia

The city of Mecca (Saudi Arabia) is written in Chinese as 麦加. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Mài jiā — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

麦Mài
加jiā

麦加 is written with 2 characters: 麦 (Mài), 加 (jiā). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Mecca.

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Chinese rendering follows standard transliteration conventions · for reference