索非亚

The capital of Sofia (Bulgaria) is written in Chinese as 索非亚. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Suǒ fēi yà — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

索非亚 is written with 3 characters: 索 (Suǒ), 非 (fēi), 亚 (yà). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Sofia.