伊森·肖

YīsēnXiào

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Meanings

1 Ethan Shaw (character name)
2 transliteration of Ethan Shaw, used for various fictional characters

Characters

he/she/that (literary); used in transliterations

interpunct separating foreign given/surname

resemble; surname

Examples

伊森·肖是这部剧的主角。

Yīsēn Xiào shì zhè bù jù de zhǔjué.

Ethan Shaw is the main character of this drama.

我刚看完伊森·肖的最新一集。

Wǒ gāng kàn wán Yīsēn Xiào de zuìxīn yī jí.

I just finished watching the latest episode featuring Ethan Shaw.

Tips

culture

伊森·肖 (Yīsēn Xiào) transliterates 'Ethan Shaw'. 伊森 maps to 'Ethan' (already standard for Ethan Hunt of Mission: Impossible), and 肖 (xiào) is the standard one-character rendering of the English surname 'Shaw'. The middle dot · marks a non-Chinese name boundary.

memory

肖 doubles as a real Chinese surname (read Xiāo in that case), so it's a natural pick for foreign 'Sh-' surnames — Shaw, Sharpe etc. Read Xiào here as the deliberate transliteration tone.

Stroke Order

伊 yī

森 sēn

肖 xiào