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芭郭丽

芭郭麗
Bāguōlì
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Meanings

  1. 1 Bagolly / Baguoli (transliterated foreign female given name)
  2. 2 phonetic rendering of a Western name in Chinese subtitles, most often used for fictional or minor real-world bearers

Examples

芭郭丽是电影里的一个女角色。
Bāguōlì shì diànyǐng lǐ de yī ge nǚ juésè.
Bagolly is a female character in the film.
她叫芭郭丽，来自欧洲。
Tā jiào Bāguōlì, láizì Ōuzhōu.
Her name is Bagolly, she's from Europe.

Tips

usage
A subtitle-corpus transliteration approximating a foreign name with stress on Ba-go-ly / Ba-ko-ly. 芭 (bā) often opens female-name transliterations (see 芭芭拉 Barbara, 芭比 Barbie); 郭 (guō) supplies a "go/ko" syllable; 丽 (lì) is a stock "-ly/-lee" ending feminizing the name.
memory
Break it down syllable-by-syllable: 芭 ba- + 郭 -guō- + 丽 -lì → "Ba-guo-li." The three characters together signal "Western woman's name" to a Chinese reader before they even know who it refers to.

Stroke Order

芭 bā
郭 Guō
丽 lì