苏黎世

The city of Zurich (Switzerland) is written in Chinese as 苏黎世. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Sū lí shì — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

苏黎世 is written with 3 characters: 苏 (Sū), 黎 (lí), 世 (shì). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Zurich.