Surabaya in Chinese

泗水

Sì shuǐ

City in Indonesia

The city of Surabaya (Indonesia) is written in Chinese as 泗水. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Sì shuǐ — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

泗Sì
水shuǐ

泗水 is written with 2 characters: 泗 (Sì), 水 (shuǐ). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Surabaya.

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