How To Pronounce Karachi

In British English, Karachi is pronounced /kəˈrɑː.tʃi/. The narrow phonetic transcription is [kəˈrɑː.tʃi]. In American English, it is pronounced /kəˈrɑː.tʃi/.

Karachi has three syllables, and the main stress falls on the second syllable. British and American speakers say it the same way.

Slashes / / show the phonemic transcription, the sounds that change meaning. Square brackets [ ] show the phonetic transcription, with the finer detail of how the sounds are actually made.