利亚 (Lìyà): Leah (biblical name)

Meanings

1 Leah (biblical name)
2 Lia / Liya (transliteration syllable used in many foreign names)

Characters

利

lì

profit; sharp (phonetic 'li')

亚

yà

second; Asia (phonetic 'ya')

Examples

利亚是雅各的妻子。

Lìyà shì Yǎgè de qīzi.

Leah is Jacob's wife (in the Bible).

她的中文名叫利亚。

Tā de Zhōngwén míng jiào Lìyà.

Her Chinese name is Liya.

Tips

usage

利亚 is a common transliteration of the foreign syllable "-lia" / "Leah." It appears as the biblical name Leah (利亚, Jacob's first wife) and as a tail in many country/place names — 索马利亚 (Somalia), 澳大利亚 (Australia), 利比利亚 (Liberia). On its own it is most often the biblical Leah.

memory

利 (lì, profit/sharp) + 亚 (yà, second/Asia) — both characters here are sound-only; ignore their meanings and read them as the syllables "li-ya."