薇拉

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

Character-by-character breakdown

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

Origin & meaning of Vera

Vera is a name of Russian origin. From the Russian vera, "faith," or the Latin verus, "true" — a name that travels beautifully across languages.