How do you say Tarawa in Chinese?

Tarawa in Chinese is 塔拉瓦, pronounced Tǎ lā wǎ in Mandarin pinyin.

What is the Chinese name for Tarawa?

The standard Chinese name for Tarawa (Kiribati) is 塔拉瓦 (Tǎ lā wǎ).

Tarawa in Chinese

塔拉瓦

Tǎ lā wǎ

Capital of Kiribati

The capital of Tarawa (Kiribati) is written in Chinese as 塔拉瓦. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Tǎ lā wǎ — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

塔Tǎ

拉lā

瓦wǎ

塔拉瓦 is written with 3 characters: 塔 (Tǎ), 拉 (lā), 瓦 (wǎ). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Tarawa.

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Chinese rendering follows standard transliteration conventions · for reference