The young lover in 莎士比亚's tragedy set in Verona: a Montague who secretly marries 朱丽叶 of the rival Capulet family and kills himself when he believes she is dead.
The usual spelling on both sides of the Strait is 罗密欧; 罗米欧 is a rarer variant. China's own doomed lovers, 梁山伯 and 祝英台 of the Butterfly Lovers legend, are often called the Chinese Romeo and Juliet.
