君士坦丁堡

The city of Constantinople (Turkey) is written in Chinese as 君士坦丁堡. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Jūn shì tǎn dīng bǎo — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

君士坦丁堡 is written with 5 characters: 君 (Jūn), 士 (shì), 坦 (tǎn), 丁 (dīng), 堡 (bǎo). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Constantinople.