皮埃罗 (Pí'āiluó): Pierrot (the sad-faced French c…

Meanings

1 Pierrot (the sad-faced French clown character of the commedia dell'arte tradition)
2 Piero / Pierrot (Italian / French given name)
3 phonetic transliteration of names like Pierre, Piero, Pierrot

Characters

皮

pí

skin (used phonetically for 'Pi-')

埃

āi

dust (used phonetically for '-e-')

罗

luó

net (used phonetically for '-rrot')

Examples

皮埃罗是意大利喜剧里的小丑角色。

Pí'āiluó shì Yìdàlì xǐjù lǐ de xiǎochǒu juésè.

Pierrot is a clown character in Italian comedy.

她最喜欢皮埃罗的悲伤面孔。

Tā zuì xǐhuan Pí'āiluó de bēishāng miànkǒng.

She loves Pierrot's sad face the most.

Tips

culture

Pierrot (皮埃罗) is the white-faced, melancholy clown in love with Columbine — a stock figure that emerged in 17th-century French versions of the Italian commedia dell'arte and went on to inspire Pablo Picasso paintings, Schoenberg's 'Pierrot Lunaire', and David Bowie's 'Ashes to Ashes' video. The same characters also serve as a transliteration for the Italian given name Piero (Renaissance painter Piero della Francesca = 皮埃罗·德拉·弗朗切斯卡).

memory

Three characters: 皮 (pí, 'skin') + 埃 (āi, 'dust') + 罗 (luó, 'net') — pure phonetics for 'Pi-e-rrot'. The 埃 character is the standard '-e-' connector in French-name transliterations (also seen in 皮埃尔 'Pierre').