加泽尔 (Jiāzé'ěr): Gazelle (transliterated foreign…

Meanings

1 Gazelle (transliterated foreign name or term)
2 name used for various foreign characters and brands; also a phonetic rendering of "Gazelle" (the antelope) when used as a name

Characters

加

jiā

to add (phonetic "Ga-")

泽

zé

lake, marsh (phonetic "-ze-")

尔

ěr

you / suffix (phonetic "-er/-le")

Examples

加泽尔是一个外国名字。

Jiāzé'ěr shì yī ge wàiguó míngzì.

Gazelle is a foreign name.

他给猫取名叫加泽尔。

Tā gěi māo qǔ míng jiào Jiāzé'ěr.

He named his cat Gazelle.

Tips

usage

A subtitle-corpus transliteration of "Ga-zelle" / "Ga-zer." 加 supplies "Ga-," 泽 (zé) the "-ze-" syllable, 尔 (ěr) is the workhorse final for foreign "-er / -el / -ar" sounds (think 哈利·波特 Harry Potter uses 特, but 默克尔 Merkel uses 尔). Without context, it's a generic Western name; bearers vary across films and games.

memory

Three syllables: 加-泽-尔 → Ga-ze-er → "Gazelle." The Disney film Zootopia's pop-star character Gazelle is officially translated 夏奇拉 in Chinese (matching the voice actress Shakira), so 加泽尔 is more often used for less-localized translations.