渥太华

The capital of Ottawa (Canada) is written in Chinese as 渥太华. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Wò tài huá — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

渥太华 is written with 3 characters: 渥 (Wò), 太 (tài), 华 (huá). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Ottawa.