德黑兰

The capital of Tehran (Iran) is written in Chinese as 德黑兰. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Dé hēi lán — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

德黑兰 is written with 3 characters: 德 (Dé), 黑 (hēi), 兰 (lán). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Tehran.