皮卡德 (Píkǎdé): Picard / Piccard (transliterati…

Meanings

1 Picard / Piccard (transliteration of the Western surname; most often refers to Captain Jean-Luc Picard of Star Trek, or to Swiss explorer Auguste Piccard)

Characters

皮

pí

skin; leather (transliteration syllable)

卡

kǎ

card; checkpoint (transliteration syllable)

德

dé

virtue (transliteration syllable for '-d')

Examples

皮卡德舰长是《星际迷航》里的经典角色。

Píkǎdé jiànzhǎng shì 《Xīngjì Míháng》 lǐ de jīngdiǎn juésè.

Captain Picard is a classic character in Star Trek.

瑞士探险家皮卡德是平流层气球飞行的先驱。

Ruìshì tànxiǎnjiā Píkǎdé shì píngliúcéng qìqiú fēixíng de xiānqū.

The Swiss explorer Piccard was a pioneer of stratospheric balloon flight.

Tips

culture

Most subtitle-corpus uses point to Captain Jean-Luc Picard (皮卡德舰长) of Star Trek: The Next Generation, played by Patrick Stewart. The same characters also transliterate the Swiss Piccard family — Auguste (first to reach the stratosphere by balloon, 1931) and his grandson Bertrand (first non-stop balloon trip around the world).

memory

Phonetic: 皮 (pí, 'skin') for 'Pi-', 卡 (kǎ, 'card') for '-car-/-ca-', 德 (dé, 'virtue') for the trailing '-d'. The character meanings are not literal — chosen for sound.