圣萨尔瓦多

The capital of San Salvador (El Salvador) is written in Chinese as 圣萨尔瓦多. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Shèng sà ěr wǎ duō — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

圣萨尔瓦多 is written with 5 characters: 圣 (Shèng), 萨 (sà), 尔 (ěr), 瓦 (wǎ), 多 (duō). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of San Salvador.