德尔 (Dé'ěr): Del / Dell / Der (common buildi…

Meanings

1 Del / Dell / Der (common building block in transliterated Western names, e.g. Delgado, Delaware, Dell)

Characters

德

dé

virtue; ethics — phonetically 'De-'

尔

ěr

you (literary); thus — phonetically '-r/-l'

Examples

我用的是一台德尔笔记本电脑。

Wǒ yòng de shì yī tái Dé'ěr bǐjìběn diànnǎo.

I'm using a Dell laptop. (Dell Inc. is also written 戴尔, but 德尔 appears in older catalogs and some name renderings.)

德尔先生是个画家。

Dé'ěr xiānsheng shì gè huàjiā.

Mr. Del is a painter.

Tips

usage

德尔 (Dé'ěr) is a common 2-character transliteration unit covering English 'Del-/Der-/Dell' as a name fragment: e.g. 德尔加多 (Delgado), 德尔塔 (Delta), 德尔马 (Del Mar). The standard transliteration of the Dell computer brand uses 戴尔 instead. Note the apostrophe in pinyin (Dé'ěr) marks the syllable boundary before 尔.