昂那尔 (Ángnà'ěr): Honnar / Honner / Honecker (for…

Meanings

1 Honnar / Honner / Honecker (foreign surname transliteration)
2 in older PRC press, sometimes used as a variant rendering of Erich Honecker, East German leader 1971–1989

Characters

昂

áng

to lift up; high (transliteration: Hon-)

那

nà

that (transliteration: -na-)

尔

ěr

(literary) you (transliteration: -r)

Examples

小说里的昂那尔是个法国军官。

Xiǎoshuō lǐ de Ángnà'ěr shì gè Fǎguó jūnguān.

The Honnar in the novel is a French officer.

那篇报道把昂那尔翻译成了昂纳克。

Nà piān bàodào bǎ Ángnà'ěr fānyì chéng le Ángnàkè.

That report rendered the name as Angnake instead of Ang'na'er.

Tips

usage

A non-standardized foreign-name transliteration. The standard PRC rendering for Erich Honecker is 埃里希·昂纳克 (Āilǐxī Ángnàkè); 昂那尔 is closer in sound to French 'Honnar' or Spanish 'Honnar'. Without context, treat as a generic European surname rendered phonetically.

memory

Sound-by-sound: 昂 (áng, 'high') = 'Hon', 那 (nà, 'that') = 'na', 尔 (ěr, 'you' — a stock final transliteration syllable, the same one ending 萨尔瓦多 Sà'ěrwǎduō 'El Salvador') = '-r'.