塞德里克

The male name Cedric is rendered in Chinese as 塞德里克. These characters are chosen for their sound, not their meaning — together they approximate how Cedric is pronounced. In pinyin (the standard romanization of Mandarin) this reads Sāi dé lǐ kè.

Character-by-character breakdown

In Chinese, Cedric is written with 4 characters, each standing for one syllable of the sound: 塞 (Sāi), 德 (dé), 里 (lǐ), 克 (kè). Each character here is a phonetic unit — picked for how it sounds, not for what it means — so read together they echo Cedric rather than spelling out a literal meaning.

Origin & meaning of Cedric

Cedric is a name of English origin. Invented by Sir Walter Scott for the novel Ivanhoe (1819), loosely inspired by the historical Anglo-Saxon name Cerdic.