麦地那

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

Character-by-character pronunciation

麦地那 is written with 3 characters: 麦 (Mài), 地 (dì), 那 (nà). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Medina.