斯皮尔门 (Sīpí'ěrmén): Spielman / Spearman — translite…

Meanings

1 Spielman / Spearman — transliteration of Western surname; in subtitle corpora typically refers to the surname of fictional or real Anglo-Saxon characters

Characters

斯

sī

this (transliteration syllable s-)

皮

pí

skin (transliteration syllable pi)

尔

ěr

you (transliteration -r ending)

门

mén

door (transliteration -man ending)

Examples

斯皮尔门先生是这部电影的主角。

Sīpí'ěrmén xiānsheng shì zhè bù diànyǐng de zhǔjué.

Mr. Spielman is the protagonist of this film.

我没听清楚他说的是斯皮尔门还是斯皮尔伯格。

Wǒ méi tīng qīngchu tā shuō de shì Sīpí'ěrmén háishi Sīpí'ěrbógé.

I didn't catch whether he said Spielman or Spielberg.

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usage

Phonetic transliteration of an English/German -man surname (Spielman, Spearman, Spillman). Each character is sound-only: 斯 (sī, 's-'), 皮 (pí, '-pi-'), 尔 (ěr, '-r-'), 门 (mén, '-man'). The character 门 is the standard rendering of the '-man' suffix in Western names.

memory

Note 斯皮尔伯格 (Sīpí'ěrbógé) = Spielberg (the director Steven Spielberg), which shares the first three syllables with 斯皮尔门 — easy to confuse, since both come from the German Spiel- root.