阿拉贝拉

The female name Arabella is rendered in Chinese as 阿拉贝拉. These characters are chosen for their sound, not their meaning — together they approximate how Arabella is pronounced. In pinyin (the standard romanization of Mandarin) this reads Ā lā bèi lā.

Character-by-character breakdown

In Chinese, Arabella is written with 4 characters, each standing for one syllable of the sound: 阿 (Ā), 拉 (lā), 贝 (bèi), 拉 (lā). Each character here is a phonetic unit — picked for how it sounds, not for what it means — so read together they echo Arabella rather than spelling out a literal meaning.

Origin & meaning of Arabella

Arabella is a name of Latin origin. Of uncertain origin; possibly from the Latin orabilis, "yielding to prayer."