克里斯蒂安

克里斯蒂安 is the standard Chinese rendering of the masculine name Christian / Kristian. Bearers include footballer Christian Ronaldo (usually rendered 克里斯蒂亚诺·罗纳尔多), Danish Crown Prince Christian, and writer Hans Christian Andersen — though for Andersen Chinese consistently uses 安徒生 (Āntúshēng) for the surname plus 克里斯蒂安 for the middle name.

Five-character transliterations like this need an apostrophe in pinyin to mark syllable boundaries — Kèlǐsīdì'ān, not Kèlǐsīdìān (which could parse as ...di-an or ...di'an). The apostrophe always precedes a, e, or o that follows another syllable.