Switzerland in Chinese

瑞士

Ruì shì

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Switzerland is written in Chinese as 瑞士. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Ruì shì — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

Ruì
shì

瑞士 is written with 2 characters: (Ruì), (shì). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Switzerland.

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Chinese rendering follows standard transliteration conventions · for reference