Phonetic transliteration of the German surname 'Goetz' / 'Götz' (also used for 'Gates' in some renderings):
高 (gāo) approximates 'Goe-',
茨 (cí) approximates '-tz'.
茨 is heavily reused for the '-tz' / '-ts' ending in Western names because Mandarin has no native ts cluster (cf.
莱布尼茨 Leibniz,
奥斯威辛集中营's
茨 etc.).
