叙利亚

Syria is written in Chinese as 叙利亚. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Xù lì yà — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

叙利亚 is written with 3 characters: 叙 (Xù), 利 (lì), 亚 (yà). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Syria.