艾迪生

The female name Addison is rendered in Chinese as 艾迪生. These characters are chosen for their sound, not their meaning — together they approximate how Addison is pronounced. In pinyin (the standard romanization of Mandarin) this reads Ài dí shēng.

Character-by-character breakdown

In Chinese, Addison is written with 3 characters, each standing for one syllable of the sound: 艾 (Ài), 迪 (dí), 生 (shēng). Each character here is a phonetic unit — picked for how it sounds, not for what it means — so read together they echo Addison rather than spelling out a literal meaning.

Origin & meaning of Addison

Addison is a name of English origin. From an English surname meaning "son of Adam" — widely adopted as a given name for girls.