杜伯格

Dùbógé

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Meanings

1 Duberg / Dubourg / DuBerg (foreign-name transliteration)
2 three-character phonetic rendering of a Western surname ending in '-berg' or '-bourg'

Characters

Chinese surname Du (phonetic 'Du-')

elder uncle / earl (phonetic '-ber-')

pattern / grid (phonetic '-g')

Examples

杜伯格先生是这家公司的老板。

Dùbógé xiānsheng shì zhè jiā gōngsī de lǎobǎn.

Mr. Duberg is the boss of this company.

侦探小说里的反派叫杜伯格。

Zhēntàn xiǎoshuō lǐ de fǎnpài jiào Dùbógé.

The villain in the detective novel is called Duberg.

Tips

usage

Phonetic transliteration: 杜 'du' (English 'Du-' or French 'Du-') + 伯 'bo' (rendering '-ber-' / '-bour-') + 格 'ge' (rendering the German/Yiddish '-berg' or French '-bourg' suffix). Compare similar -berg names: 斯皮尔伯格 Spielberg, 海德堡 Heidelberg, 卢森堡 Luxembourg. The closing 格 / 堡 / 贝格 are interchangeable depending on era and translator.

memory

Each character is phonetic but reads pleasantly: 杜 'a Chinese surname / pear tree' + 伯 'uncle / earl' + 格 'pattern / grid'.

Stroke Order

杜 dù

伯 bó

格 gé