西波

Xībō
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Meanings

  1. 1 Sipo / Cipo / Seabo (phonetic transliteration of various foreign names)

Examples

Xībō shì diànyǐng lǐ yí gè juésè de míngzi.
Sipo is the name of a character in the film.
Qǐng bǎ zhège bāoguǒ jiāo gěi Xībō.
Please hand this package to Sipo.

Tips

usage
西波 is a phonetic transliteration used in subtitles for short foreign names ending in /-iːpoʊ/ or /-iboʊ/ — e.g. Sipo, Cipo, Seabo. Without context it is generic; the characters 西 (west) + (wave) carry no semantic meaning here.
memory
Two clean syllables: 西 xī ('see-') + bō ('-bo'). 西 (west) is heavily reused in transliterations because /siː/ is rare in native words.

Stroke Order

西