used in 菩薩|菩萨[pu2 sa4]; used in transliteration

(loanword) pizza

Saarland

Florence, Italy

Pisa, town in Toscana, Italy

(loanword) pizza

Texas, US state

see 拉薩市|拉萨市[La1 sa4 Shi4]

(Buddhism) bodhisattva

Saddam Hussein (1937–2006), president of Iraq 1979–2003

Kansas, US state

Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), French existential philosopher and novelist

Isaac (name)

SARS; Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

pizza (loanword); CL:張|张[zhang1]

sax; saxophone

El Salvador

THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense), US Army anti-ballistic missile system

Sally (name)

Sacramento

Casablanca (Morocco's economic capital)

Texas, US state (an official transliteration, but less commonly used than 德克薩斯|德克萨斯[De2 ke4 sa4 si1])

Mossad

Surrey (county in England)

Barca (nickname for FC Barcelona); Baza (town in Grenada, Spain)

Giacomo Casanova (1725-1798), Italian adventurer known for womanizing

(loanword) pizza

Sarajevo, capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina

(loanword) saxophone

Cossack (people)

(loanword) shaman

Saab

Renesas Electronics (Japanese microchip company)

Visa (credit card and payment network)

see 薩嘎縣|萨嘎县[Sa4 ga1 Xian4]

Satsuma, the name of a former feudal domain in Japan, and of a former province, a battleship, a district, a peninsula etc

Safi (Moroccan city on the Atlantic coast)

Sati (Hindu goddess)

sati (illegal Hindu practice)

Sa'gya town and county, Tibetan: Sa skya, in Shigatse prefecture, central Tibet; saga (i.e. heroic tale)

Sana'a, capital of Yemen

Mensa (loanword)

Ithaca, a Greek island; Ithaca, New York, location of Cornell University 康奈爾大學|康奈尔大学[Kang1 nai4 er3 Da4 xue2]

Lusaka, capital of Zambia

Kazakh ethnic group; (Tw, HK) Kazakhstan

Passat (automobile)

Lhasa, prefecture-level city and capital of Tibet Autonomous Region 西藏自治區|西藏自治区[Xi1 zang4 Zi4 zhi4 qu1]

Odessa (city in Ukraine)

King Gesar, hero of a Tibetan and Mongolian epic cycle