How to Say "Brooklyn" in Chinese

布鲁克林

bù lǔ kè lín

The English phrase Brooklyn is translated into Chinese as 布鲁克林 (bù lǔ kè lín).

布鲁克林 is the name used for the borough of New York City in Chinese.

Meaning: borough of New York City (name)

How do you pronounce it?

bù lǔ kè lín

If you were to look up the characters in a dictionary, you would find the first character 布 means 'cloth' and the second 鲁 refers to 'unpolished' or is a province name, but they have nothing to do with New York.
The character 鲁 in 布鲁克林 is also the name of a province in China, Shandong, which is often referred to as 鲁地.
The character 林 (lín), which ends the name, is a very common Chinese surname meaning 'forest', which can lead to a strange visual coincidence where a place name ends with a common human name.

我能从布鲁克林的房间看到曼哈顿。
From my room in Brooklyn I can see all the way to Manhattan.
This sentence is useful for describing a view from a room in 布鲁克林.
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我明天要去布鲁克林看朋友。
I'm going to Brooklyn tomorrow to visit a friend.
布鲁克林有很多好吃的餐厅。
Bùlǔkèlín yǒu hěnduō hào chī de cāntīng.
Brooklyn has many delicious restaurants.
他住在布鲁克林区。
Tā zhù zài Bùlǔkèlín qū.
He lives in Brooklyn.

Two friends are discussing their weekend plans in New York.

俊杰 Junjie

你周末想去布鲁克林吗？
Nǐ zhōumò xiǎng qù Bùlǔkèlín ma?
Do you want to go to Brooklyn this weekend?
佳怡 Jiayi

好啊，我想去那里看博物馆。
Hǎo a, wǒ xiǎng qù nàlǐ kàn bówùguǎn.
Sure, I want to go there to see a museum.
俊杰 Junjie

那我们可以一起去。
Nà wǒmen kěyǐ yīqǐ qù.
Then we can go together.
佳怡 Jiayi

太棒了，谢谢你。
Tài bàng le, xièxiè nǐ.
That's great, thank you.

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