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Often used in phono-semantic matchings to translate English and German -burg, or English -burgh, etc.
Some place names or surnames with the component Berg are also translated with 堡, but this is a result of confusion between Burg and Berg, with the latter meaning "mountain" instead of "castle". Nowadays Berg is usually transliterated as 貝格 / 贝格 or 伯格, except in a few examples such as 紐倫堡 / 纽伦堡(Niǔlúnbǎo, “Nuremberg”), 海德堡(Hǎidébǎo, “Heidelberg”), and 海森堡(Hǎisēnbǎo, “Heisenberg”).