Samarkand in Chinese

撒马尔罕

Sā mǎ ěr hǎn

City in Uzbekistan

The city of Samarkand (Uzbekistan) is written in Chinese as 撒马尔罕. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Sā mǎ ěr hǎn — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

撒Sā
马mǎ
尔ěr
罕hǎn

撒马尔罕 is written with 4 characters: 撒 (Sā), 马 (mǎ), 尔 (ěr), 罕 (hǎn). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Samarkand.

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