迭戈

The male name Diego is rendered in Chinese as 迭戈. These characters are chosen for their sound, not their meaning — together they approximate how Diego is pronounced. In pinyin (the standard romanization of Mandarin) this reads Dié gē.

Character-by-character breakdown

In Chinese, Diego is written with 2 characters, each standing for one syllable of the sound: 迭 (Dié), 戈 (gē). Each character here is a phonetic unit — picked for how it sounds, not for what it means — so read together they echo Diego rather than spelling out a literal meaning.

Origin & meaning of Diego

Diego is a name of Spanish origin. A Spanish form of James, from the Hebrew Jacob; the name of the apostle venerated as patron saint across Latin America.