加里

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

Character-by-character breakdown

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

Origin & meaning of Gary

Gary is a name of Germanic origin. A variant of Gerald, from the Germanic ger (spear).