新奥尔良

The city of New Orleans (United States) is written in Chinese as 新奥尔良. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Xīn ào ěr liáng — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

新奥尔良 is written with 4 characters: 新 (Xīn), 奥 (ào), 尔 (ěr), 良 (liáng). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of New Orleans.