杰西卡

The female name Jessica is rendered in Chinese as 杰西卡. These characters are chosen for their sound, not their meaning — together they approximate how Jessica is pronounced. In pinyin (the standard romanization of Mandarin) this reads Jié xī kǎ.

Character-by-character breakdown

In Chinese, Jessica is written with 3 characters, each standing for one syllable of the sound: 杰 (Jié), 西 (xī), 卡 (kǎ). Each character here is a phonetic unit — picked for how it sounds, not for what it means — so read together they echo Jessica rather than spelling out a literal meaning.

Origin & meaning of Jessica

Jessica is a name of Hebrew origin. Coined by Shakespeare in The Merchant of Venice, possibly from the Hebrew Yiskah, "God beholds."