凯莉

The female name Kylie is rendered in Chinese as 凯莉. These characters are chosen for their sound, not their meaning — together they approximate how Kylie is pronounced. In pinyin (the standard romanization of Mandarin) this reads Kǎi lì.

Character-by-character breakdown

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

Origin & meaning of Kylie

Kylie is a name of Aboriginal Australian origin. From an Aboriginal Australian word meaning "boomerang"; independently used as a feminine variant of Kyle.