Varanasi in Chinese

瓦拉纳西

Wǎ lā nà xī

City in India

The city of Varanasi (India) is written in Chinese as 瓦拉纳西. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Wǎ lā nà xī — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

瓦Wǎ
拉lā
纳nà
西xī

瓦拉纳西 is written with 4 characters: 瓦 (Wǎ), 拉 (lā), 纳 (nà), 西 (xī). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Varanasi.

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