威尼斯

The city of Venice (Italy) is written in Chinese as 威尼斯. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Wēi ní sī — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

威尼斯 is written with 3 characters: 威 (Wēi), 尼 (ní), 斯 (sī). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Venice.