哈里·波特

HālǐBōtè
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Meanings

  1. 1 Harry Potter (protagonist of J.K. Rowling's fantasy series)

Examples

Wǒ xiǎoshíhou tèbié xǐhuan kàn Hālǐ Bōtè.
I loved Harry Potter when I was a kid.
Hālǐ Bōtè xìliè yīgòng yǒu qī běn shū.
The Harry Potter series has seven books in total.

Tips

culture
Mainland China usually goes with 哈利·波特 (Hālì Bōtè) for the boy wizard, while 哈里·波特 (with instead of ) is also common and matches the Hari/Harry transliteration in CC-CEDICT. Both refer to the same character; the middle dot (·) marks a Western given-name + surname.
memory
波特 = 'Potter' is just phonetic — (wave) + (special). Same 波特 also means 'baud' in computing and 'porter' (the beer).

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