利雅得

The capital of Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) is written in Chinese as 利雅得. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Lì yǎ dé — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

利雅得 is written with 3 characters: 利 (Lì), 雅 (yǎ), 得 (dé). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Riyadh.