里约热内卢

The city of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) is written in Chinese as 里约热内卢. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Lǐ yuē rè nèi lú — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

里约热内卢 is written with 5 characters: 里 (Lǐ), 约 (yuē), 热 (rè), 内 (nèi), 卢 (lú). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Rio de Janeiro.