boy’s name
Silas in Chinese
塞拉斯
sài lā sī
Silas is usually written 塞拉斯 in Chinese, pronounced sài lā sī. It is a transliteration: the characters are chosen to sound like Silas, not for their meaning.
Character by character
| Character | Pinyin | Tone | Meaning | Traditional |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 塞 | sài | fourth (falling) tone | stop up, block, seal, cork; pass, frontier | 塞 |
| 拉 | lā | first (high, level) tone | pull, drag; seize, hold | 拉 |
| 斯 | sī | first (high, level) tone | this, thus, such; to lop off | 斯 |
Readings and meanings come from the Unicode Han Database (Unihan). In a transliterated name, the meanings of the characters are not read as a sentence.
Questions about Silas in Chinese
How do you write Silas in Chinese?
Silas is usually written 塞拉斯 in Chinese, pronounced sài lā sī. It is a transliteration: the characters are chosen to sound like Silas, not for their meaning.
How do you pronounce 塞拉斯?
塞拉斯 is pronounced sài lā sī: sài in the fourth (falling) tone, lā in the first (high, level) tone and sī in the first (high, level) tone.
How do you write Silas in traditional Chinese?
The same way: 塞拉斯 uses no simplified characters, so it is also written 塞拉斯 in Taiwan and Hong Kong.
Is 塞拉斯 a real Chinese name?
It is the usual way Chinese newspapers and books write the foreign name Silas, so Chinese readers will recognise it as a foreign name. If you would like a name that looks Chinese, our free generator also suggests names chosen for their meaning.
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