劳拉

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

Character-by-character breakdown

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

Origin & meaning of Laura

Laura is a name of Latin origin. From the Latin laurus, "laurel" — immortalized by Petrarch, who addressed his love poems to a woman named Laura.