玛拉瑞亚

瑪拉瑞亞

Mǎlāruìyà

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Meanings

1 Malaria (transliteration; used as a name in fiction/games)
2 occasionally used as a phonetic rendering of 'malaria' the disease

Characters

agate (transliteration char)

pull (transliteration char)

auspicious (transliteration char)

second (transliteration char)

Examples

游戏里的女反派叫玛拉瑞亚。

Yóuxì lǐ de nǚ fǎnpài jiào Mǎlāruìyà.

The female villain in the game is named Malaria.

玛拉瑞亚听起来像意大利语的名字。

Mǎlāruìyà tīngqǐlái xiàng Yìdàlìyǔ de míngzi.

Malaria sounds like an Italian name.

Tips

culture

Pure transliteration with no fixed Chinese referent — appears in subtitles and game/novel translations. Note that the disease malaria has its own dedicated term 疟疾 nüèjí; 玛拉瑞亚 is reserved for proper-name use.

Stroke Order

玛 mǎ

拉 lā

瑞 ruì

亚 Yà