庞贝

The city of Pompeii (Italy) is written in Chinese as 庞贝. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Páng bèi — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

庞贝 is written with 2 characters: 庞 (Páng), 贝 (bèi). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Pompeii.