Always wondered what your country's name looks like in Chinese (and how it is pronounced) ? Don't wonder anymore with this list.
Note that (guó) means "country". Big countries (Britain, France, Germany, Russia) have the distinction to have only one character followed by .
The Chinese do not really distinguish between the sounds "b" and "p", "d" and "t", "g" and "k", or "j" and "ch". The "r" are pronouned like a French "j", except final ones like in "er" which sound more like an (American) English "r".
You will see that many phonetic rendering in Chinese are very approximative. Sometimes the first syllable of the name only is taken (e.g. "bō hēi" for
Bosnia-
Herzegovinia, which would be much too long and complicated to render in Chinese). A few are semantic translations, like Montenegro which is "KR". literally "Black Mountain". Some are completely outlandish ("xīlà" for "Greece", "xiōng" for "Hungary" ?)
Europe : F (ōu zhōu)
European Union : F联 (ōu zhōu lián méng)
- Albania : 尔b亚 (ā ĕr bā ní yà)
- Andorra : 尔 : (ān dào ĕr)
- Austria : n (ào dì lì)
- Belarus : 罗z (bái é luó sī)
- Belgium : 䗘时 (bǐ lì shí)
- Bosnia-Herzegovinia : gK (bō hēi)
- Bulgaria : ۉ亚 (bǎo jiā lì yà)
- Croatia : 罗n亚 (kè luó dì yà)
- Czech Republic : a (jié kè gòng hé guó)
- Cyprus : ljYHz (ài pǔ lù sī)
- Denmark : O (dān mài)
- Estonia : 爱亚 (ài shā ní yà)
- Finland : 兰 (fēn lán)
- France @ (fǎ guó)
- Greece : 腊 (xī là)
- Germany : (dé guó)
- Hungary : (xiōng)
- Ireland : 爱尔兰 (ài ĕr lán)
- Italy : ӑ嗘 (yì dà lì)
- Kosovo : ȍ (kē suǒ wò)
- Latvia : fE维亚 (lā tuō wéi yà)
- Lichtenstein : x֎zo (liè zhī dūn sī dēng)
- Lithuania : (lì táo wǎn)
- Luxembourg : 卢X (lú sēn bǎo)
- Macedonia : 马顿 (mǎ qí dùn)
- Malta : 马 (mǎ ĕr tā)
- Monaco : 纳F (mó nà gē)
- Montenegro : KR (hēi shān)
- Netherlands : 兰 (hé lán)
- note that the region of "Holland" is 菏兰 (same pronuciation but slightly different first character)
- Norway : 挪 (nuó wēi)
- Poland : g兰 (bō lán)
- Portugal : (pú táo yá)
- Romania : 罗马亚 (luó mǎ ní yà)
- Russia : ⍑ (é guó)
- San Marino : 圣马诺 (shèng mǎ lì nuò)
- Serbia : 尔维亚 (sāi ĕr wéi yà)
- Slovakia : z (sī luò fá kè)
- Slovenia : z亚 (sī luò wén ní yà)
- Spain : lj (xī bān yá)
- Sweden : T (ruì diǎn)
- Switzerland : m (ruì shì)
- Ukraine : 乌兰 (wū kè lán)
- United Kingdom : p联 (dà yīng lián hé wáng guó)
- England : p (yīng guó) => no distinction with "Britain""
- Northern Ireland : k爱尔兰 (bĕi ài ĕr lán)
- Scotland : 苏i兰 (sū gé lán)
- Wales : 尔m (wēi ĕr shì)
European country names in Chinese
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Originally Posted by Maciamo
Always wondered what your country's name looks like in Chinese (and how it is pronounced) ? Don't wonder anymore with this list.
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