玛蒂尔达 (Mǎdì'ěrdá) · Matilda (Western female given name)

Meanings

1 Matilda (Western female given name)
2 Matilda (the title character of Roald Dahl's 1988 novel and its film/musical adaptations)

About Matilda

文学人物 fictional character

The bookish little girl of Roald Dahl's 1988 novel Matilda, who stands up to her careless parents and a cruel headmistress with the power to move things by thought. Also a 1996 film and a stage musical.

Characters

stem; base of a fruit

Examples

HSK 3

玛蒂尔达是一个聪明的小女孩。

Mǎdì'ěrdá shì yí ge cōngmíng de xiǎo nǚhái.

Matilda is a clever little girl.

HSK 7-9

我最喜欢的童书是《玛蒂尔达》。

Wǒ zuì xǐhuan de tóngshū shì 《 Mǎdì'ěrdá 》.

My favorite children's book is Matilda.

Tips

culture

玛蒂尔达 is the standard Mandarin spelling of Matilda. The name also belongs to the girl Mathilda in Léon (1994), a film known in mainland China as 《这个杀手不太冷》, 'This Killer Isn't Too Cold'.

memory

Sound out the syllables: 玛 + 蒂 + 尔 + 达 ≈ 'Ma-ti-er-da' → Matilda. 玛 and 达 are go-to characters for foreign names ending in 'ma' and 'da'.