How do you say New Zealand in Chinese?

New Zealand in Chinese is 新西兰, pronounced Xīn xī lán in Mandarin pinyin.

What is the Chinese name for New Zealand?

The standard Chinese name for New Zealand (New Zealand) is 新西兰 (Xīn xī lán).

New Zealand in Chinese

新西兰

Xīn xī lán

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New Zealand is written in Chinese as 新西兰. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Xīn xī lán — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

新Xīn

西xī

兰lán

新西兰 is written with 3 characters: 新 (Xīn), 西 (xī), 兰 (lán). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of New Zealand.

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Chinese rendering follows standard transliteration conventions · for reference