穆尼 (Mùní): Mooney / Muni (English surname)

Meanings

1 Mooney / Muni (English surname)
2 transliteration of Mooney/Muni; covers actor Paul Muni and characters/people surnamed Mooney

Characters

穆

mù

solemn; respectful; transliteration mu-/moo-

尼

ní

Buddhist nun; transliteration -ny/-ni

Examples

保罗·穆尼是上世纪三十年代的奥斯卡影帝。

Bǎoluó Mùní shì shàng shìjì sānshí niándài de Àosīkǎ yǐng dì.

Paul Muni was a 1930s Oscar Best Actor winner.

穆尼一家住在隔壁。

Mùní yìjiā zhù zài gébì.

The Mooney family lives next door.

Tips

culture

穆尼 transliterates English 'Mooney' or 'Muni'. The most prominent bearer is Paul Muni (保罗·穆尼, 1895–1967), Polish-American actor who won the 1937 Oscar for Best Actor in 《左拉传》 (The Life of Emile Zola). 穆 'Mu-' is the Chinese standby for English 'Moo-/Mu-' beginnings (Moody 穆迪, Mubarak 穆巴拉克, Murphy 墨菲 — though 墨 also covers Mu- in Murphy). 尼 maps the '-ney/-ni' final.

memory

穆 carries a quiet, dignified flavor in Chinese (its base meaning is 'solemn/respectful'), so it's often the chosen character for foreign names that should sound serious — religious figures, statesmen, scholarly types.