帕克曼 (Pàkèmàn) · Pac-Man (arcade game and character)

Meanings

1 Pac-Man (arcade game and character)
2 Packman (foreign surname transliteration)

About Pac-Man

文学人物 fictional character

The round yellow hero of Namco's 1980 arcade game, who eats dots in a maze while fleeing four ghosts. In Chinese he is more often called 吃豆人, the bean eater.

Also called 帕柯曼

Characters

帕

pà

kerchief (phonetic 'pa')

克

kè

to overcome (phonetic 'k' for '-c-')

曼

màn

graceful (phonetic 'man')

Examples

HSK 2

我小时候很喜欢玩帕克曼。

Wǒ xiǎoshíhou hěn xǐhuan wán Pàkèmàn.

I loved playing Pac-Man as a kid.

HSK 5

帕克曼是一个经典的电子游戏角色。

Pàkèmàn shì yí ge jīngdiǎn de diànzǐ yóuxì juésè.

Pac-Man is a classic video game character.

Tips

culture

Taiwan calls the game 小精灵 'little sprite' and Hong Kong 食鬼 (sik⁶ gwai²) 'ghost eater'. The Japanese name, Pakkuman, comes from パクパク (paku paku), the sound of a mouth snapping open and shut as it gobbles.