Seattle in Chinese

西雅图

Xī yǎ tú

City in United States

The city of Seattle (United States) is written in Chinese as 西雅图. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Xī yǎ tú — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

西Xī
雅yǎ
图tú

西雅图 is written with 3 characters: 西 (Xī), 雅 (yǎ), 图 (tú). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Seattle.

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Chinese rendering follows standard transliteration conventions · for reference