哥特列特

Gētèlièt'è

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Meanings

1 Gotlet / Cotelette (foreign-name phonetic transliteration)
2 transliterated personal or place name appearing in dubbed films

Characters

elder brother (used phonetically)

special (used phonetically)

row / to arrange (used phonetically)

special (used phonetically)

Examples

电影里的哥特列特将军很滑稽。

Diànyǐng lǐ de Gētèlièt'è jiāngjūn hěn huájī.

General Gotlet in the movie is hilarious.

他叫哥特列特，听起来像东欧人的名字。

Tā jiào Gētèlièt'è, tīng qǐlái xiàng dōng'ōu rén de míngzì.

He's called Gotlet — it sounds like an Eastern European name.

Tips

usage

A four-character phonetic transliteration that approximates a Slavic / Germanic surname or food word ending in '-let' or '-lette' (e.g. 'Cotelette', 'Gotlet'). 哥-特-列-特 maps to 'Go-t-le-t', with 特 (tè) doubled to render both English/German final-t consonants.

memory

Each character is chosen purely for sound, but each still has a literal sense: 哥 'elder brother', 特 'special', 列 'arrange/rank', 特 'special' — combine them and it reads almost like a comic-villain name.

Stroke Order

哥 gē

特 tè

列 liè