雷金纳德

The male name Reginald is rendered in Chinese as 雷金纳德. These characters are chosen for their sound, not their meaning — together they approximate how Reginald is pronounced. In pinyin (the standard romanization of Mandarin) this reads Léi jīn nà dé.

Character-by-character breakdown

In Chinese, Reginald is written with 4 characters, each standing for one syllable of the sound: 雷 (Léi), 金 (jīn), 纳 (nà), 德 (dé). Each character here is a phonetic unit — picked for how it sounds, not for what it means — so read together they echo Reginald rather than spelling out a literal meaning.

Origin & meaning of Reginald

Reginald is a name of Germanic origin. From the Germanic ragin (counsel) and wald (rule): "wise ruler."