圣地亚哥

The city of San Diego (United States) is written in Chinese as 圣地亚哥. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Shèng dì yà gē — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

圣地亚哥 is written with 4 characters: 圣 (Shèng), 地 (dì), 亚 (yà), 哥 (gē). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of San Diego.