塞萨洛尼基

The city of Thessaloniki (Greece) is written in Chinese as 塞萨洛尼基. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Sāi sà luò ní jī — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

塞萨洛尼基 is written with 5 characters: 塞 (Sāi), 萨 (sà), 洛 (luò), 尼 (ní), 基 (jī). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Thessaloniki.