Sydney in Chinese

悉尼

Xī ní

City in Australia

The city of Sydney (Australia) is written in Chinese as 悉尼. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Xī ní — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

悉尼 is written with 2 characters: (), (). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Sydney.

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Chinese rendering follows standard transliteration conventions · for reference