Sri Lanka in Chinese

斯里兰卡

Sī lǐ lán kǎ

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Sri Lanka is written in Chinese as 斯里兰卡. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Sī lǐ lán kǎ — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

斯Sī
里lǐ
兰lán
卡kǎ

斯里兰卡 is written with 4 characters: 斯 (Sī), 里 (lǐ), 兰 (lán), 卡 (kǎ). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Sri Lanka.

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Chinese rendering follows standard transliteration conventions · for reference