札幌

The city of Sapporo (Japan) is written in Chinese as 札幌. In Mandarin Chinese, this is pronounced Zhá huǎng — a phonetic rendering that follows standard transliteration conventions used in Chinese media and official documents.

Character-by-character pronunciation

札幌 is written with 2 characters: 札 (Zhá), 幌 (huǎng). Each character represents one syllable of the phonetic approximation of Sapporo.