扎卡里

The male name Zachary is rendered in Chinese as 扎卡里. These characters are chosen for their sound, not their meaning — together they approximate how Zachary is pronounced. In pinyin (the standard romanization of Mandarin) this reads Zhā kǎ lǐ.

Character-by-character breakdown

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

Origin & meaning of Zachary

Zachary is a name of Hebrew origin. From the Hebrew Zekharyah, meaning "God has remembered."