萨凡纳

The female name Savannah is rendered in Chinese as 萨凡纳. These characters are chosen for their sound, not their meaning — together they approximate how Savannah is pronounced. In pinyin (the standard romanization of Mandarin) this reads Sà fán nà.

Character-by-character breakdown

In Chinese, Savannah is written with 3 characters, each standing for one syllable of the sound: 萨 (Sà), 凡 (fán), 纳 (nà). Each character here is a phonetic unit — picked for how it sounds, not for what it means — so read together they echo Savannah rather than spelling out a literal meaning.

Origin & meaning of Savannah

Savannah is a name of Spanish origin. From the Spanish sabana, a treeless plain; also a historic city in Georgia.