墨尔本

The city of Melbourne (Australia) is written in Chinese as 墨尔本. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Mò ěr běn — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

墨尔本 is written with 3 characters: 墨 (Mò), 尔 (ěr), 本 (běn). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Melbourne.