尼科尔 (Níkē'ěr): Nicole / Nicol (transliteration…

Most famous bearer in Chinese media is 尼科尔·基德曼 (Nicole Kidman), the Australian actress (Moulin Rouge!, The Hours). The mainland-standard transliteration of Nicole is more often 妮可 (Nīkě) — a simpler 2-character form. 尼科尔 is the more literal three-character version preferred in some Taiwan and older translations.

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尼 'ní' = 'Ni-', 科 'kē' = '-co-', 尔 'ěr' = '-l/-le'. The 尼 character is also in 印度尼西亚 (Indonesia) and 尼姑 (nun) — its purely phonetic role here gives no semantic baggage.