里士满

The city of Richmond (United States) is written in Chinese as 里士满. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Lǐ shì mǎn — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

里士满 is written with 3 characters: 里 (Lǐ), 士 (shì), 满 (mǎn). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Richmond.