桑德拉

The female name Sandra is rendered in Chinese as 桑德拉. These characters are chosen for their sound, not their meaning — together they approximate how Sandra is pronounced. In pinyin (the standard romanization of Mandarin) this reads Sāng dé lā.

Character-by-character breakdown

In Chinese, Sandra is written with 3 characters, each standing for one syllable of the sound: 桑 (Sāng), 德 (dé), 拉 (lā). Each character here is a phonetic unit — picked for how it sounds, not for what it means — so read together they echo Sandra rather than spelling out a literal meaning.

Origin & meaning of Sandra

Sandra is a name of Greek origin. A short form of Alexandra, meaning "defender of men."