Paris in Chinese

巴黎

Bā lí

Capital of France

The capital of Paris (France) is written in Chinese as 巴黎. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Bā lí — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

巴Bā
黎lí

巴黎 is written with 2 characters: 巴 (Bā), 黎 (lí). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Paris.

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Chinese rendering follows standard transliteration conventions · for reference