尼娜

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

Character-by-character breakdown

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

Origin & meaning of Nina

Nina is a name of Spanish origin. A popular diminutive used across Europe; from the Spanish niña, "little girl," or a Slavic short form of longer names.