兰斯

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

Character-by-character breakdown

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

Origin & meaning of Lance

Lance is a name of Germanic origin. From the Germanic lanzo, "land"; also a diminutive of Lancelot.