卡莱布

The male name Caleb is rendered in Chinese as 卡莱布. These characters are chosen for their sound, not their meaning — together they approximate how Caleb is pronounced. In pinyin (the standard romanization of Mandarin) this reads Kǎ lái bù.

Character-by-character breakdown

In Chinese, Caleb is written with 3 characters, each standing for one syllable of the sound: 卡 (Kǎ), 莱 (lái), 布 (bù). Each character here is a phonetic unit — picked for how it sounds, not for what it means — so read together they echo Caleb rather than spelling out a literal meaning.

Origin & meaning of Caleb

Caleb is a name of Hebrew origin. From the Hebrew Kalev, meaning "dog" or "whole-hearted" — one of the two faithful spies in the Bible.