巴勒莫

The city of Palermo (Italy) is written in Chinese as 巴勒莫. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Bā lè mò — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

巴勒莫 is written with 3 characters: 巴 (Bā), 勒 (lè), 莫 (mò). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Palermo.