圣彼得堡

The city of Saint Petersburg (Russia) is written in Chinese as 圣彼得堡. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Shèng bǐ dé bǎo — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

圣彼得堡 is written with 4 characters: 圣 (Shèng), 彼 (bǐ), 得 (dé), 堡 (bǎo). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Saint Petersburg.