鹿特丹

The city of Rotterdam (Netherlands) is written in Chinese as 鹿特丹. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Lù tè dān — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

鹿特丹 is written with 3 characters: 鹿 (Lù), 特 (tè), 丹 (dān). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Rotterdam.