莫妮卡

The female name Monica is rendered in Chinese as 莫妮卡. These characters are chosen for their sound, not their meaning — together they approximate how Monica is pronounced. In pinyin (the standard romanization of Mandarin) this reads Mò nī kǎ.

Character-by-character breakdown

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

Origin & meaning of Monica

Monica is a name of Latin origin. Of uncertain origin; made immortal as the name of Saint Augustine's devoted mother who never gave up on him.