格瑞特

Géruìtè
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Meanings

  1. 1 Gretel / Gerrit / Garrett (transliteration of Western given names; in Chinese subtitles often Gretel from the fairy tale Hansel and Gretel)

Examples

Hànsài'ěr hé Géruìtè shì Gélín tónghuà zhōng de xiōngmèi.
Hansel and Gretel are the brother and sister in the Grimm fairy tale.
Géruìtè bǎ miànbāo xiè sǎ zài lù shàng.
Gretel scattered breadcrumbs along the path.

Tips

culture
格瑞特 is most often the Chinese rendering of Gretel — the girl from the Grimm Brothers' 《格瑞特》 (Hansel and Gretel) who pushes the witch into the oven. The same characters can also transliterate Western masculine names like Gerrit or Garrett, and the surname Garrett.
memory
(gé, 'pattern' / phonetic 'ge') + (ruì, 'auspicious' / phonetic 'rui') + (tè, 'special' / phonetic 't'). ... is a very common pattern for two-syllable Western names that begin with G- and end in -t (Garrett, Gerrit, Gerald → , etc.).

Stroke Order

ruì