My Chinese name is 张笑怡. It references my most outstanding feature, my smile. I'm most beautiful when I smile...and my personal hope to always happy now and forever .
My adopted Chinese name is 白志宁. I chose 白 because it starts with a "b" sound and although I found some other names closer in pronunciation to my surname on the hundred names list, my teacher at the time said that they weren't used as surnames now, so this would confuse people. For my given name, I chose 志宁 as I like the meaning and I wanted something that starts with a "j" or "zh" sound. Rather interestingly, one of my fellow classmates (in a class of seven people) also wanted to choose this name, but I was the first to complete my homework that week (choosing our own Chinese names if we didn't have them already so we could practice "spelling" them to our classmates), so my classmate now has a different Chinese name.
My name's 米永盛. I chose "Mi" as surname because that's the first syllable of my real surname and "Yongsheng" because it means "forever prosperous". My name in Spanish means "victorious", so I thought that was a good idea.
My Chinese name is 韩婉夏 and all my Chinese friends think it's very pretty. 韩 didn't get much thought, because that is one of my surnames, but when it comes to 婉夏... I put a lot of thought in it and got help from the native Chinese-speakers I talk to. I'm pretty proud of it hehe. Thanks for the video!!
I wrote a short story about the moon and the northern lights. My Chinese room mate told me I should take the name Li Bai. I also drink a lot. And love music and dancing. Studying Mandarin. Took Kung Fu. learned acupressure massage, reflexology, the bodies meridians and like Mandarin TV series.
Hi, there! Leave your name (for a boy or girl) or story about your name in the comment, so that we can help you to get a good Chinese name or check if it is a nice name in Chinese! You can also get the PDF of over 100 Chinese names (with explanation) for boys and girls on our site: www.everydaychinese.com/youtube-lessons/chinese-names.html
Hi, I'm am from Mexico My first name is Aranza, while my last name is Cruz Aranza means someone who sees the life from a positive way Cruz means came from the ancient shields used in Spain So... I don't know how to pick a good Chinese name. Please. Help me 😭🙏🙏
I'm Manipuri, I'm a girl, my name is Dolina but I don't know the actual meaning my nickname is Thembi it's a bird of Manipur my grandfather called me Thembi cause when I was kid they said I was smooth as its feathers. My surname is chingangbam. I don't know how to make my name in Chinese so please make for me with surname, thank you.
My name is Daria, but my chinese teacher gave me and my twin sister names 史蕤 & 史葳。She told us that 葳蕤 is a flower, so she separete the characters and gave us one.
@MIchelle Liu But I'm Chinses😂葳蕤 is not used in our daily life. It comes from an ancient poem. If a Chinese don't know the poem,He'll never know 葳蕤 either.This poem is not included our required course. So using it as a name will cause a lot troubles for the people who first read,write the name.
My Chinese name is 郝旭辰. I chose 郝 as it is similar to my English surname. I've used 旭 as I think the character itself is beautiful and I like the meaning - brilliance of the rising sun. I also looked at the heavenly stems and earthly branches method. From that I chose the character 辰 which represents the the solar month during which I was born. What do you think?
@@goblue1011 you seem to know alot about chinese names? XD do you think you could help me find a name that incorporates or means "Moon" it's my english last name and my first name is Bmo (Bee-Mo) do you know any?
我的中文名字是王茉莉。 Its derived from my English nickname Molly. 王 = "wang" meaning King. 茉莉 = "moli" meaning Jasmine Flower. 😊❤ it's funny because my real name "sa-ma-lee" translates in my native language to "scent of flowers".
I remember the chinese song about that flower.. We sang it when i was in elementary, and my teacher caught me fooling around with the lyrics and smack me like there was no tomorrow😂 (good memories from my childhood) haha
That's interesting. My name is Anna which from hebrew means grace, charm and kind woman so the meaning of 安娜 as "goodliness" and "graceful" really suits. I think I'm gonna stick with it :)
It's funny, today I decided which is my nickname, basing my decision on my personality and a drama's character (I identify myself with him and I have many things in common with [love both: the untamed and the character is Lan Wanji/Lan Zhan/HanguanJun]). I told my Friends that they can call me Lan Zhan or Lan Wanji, that both are fine. A friend said that is going to call me Wanji because is shorter.
I remember that Jackie Chan's name Chen Long means become a/ the dragon And Bruce Lee's, Xiao Long (if I'm not wrong) means little dragon. From the boyband uniq an artist's name is Yixuan, other is Wenhan and the other is Yibo. I was wondering if Yibo is the transliteration of another name, like in the case of David that in Chinese is Dawei. 🤔?
@@sohamdate7007 Yes, this is really strange, as it is a regular noun. It would also be strange if a person in English would just be called "princess" as their first name
Thank you for this video! It was really helpful. I downloaded the PDF and selected 金美雅. How does it sound? My name is Maya so I like 美雅 because it sounds similar.
My students gave me the name 小明 . After 3 years, students at a different school thought that 小明 wasn’t suitable for me, so awarded me a nickname instead. 老六 😁 Old six fits me better apparently.
I don't like my given English name and I don't have a Chinese teacher to give me a name. So I chose a name based off of my favorite historical figure and my favorite fictional character. The result is 甘 Qīngqīng. But I don't know if Qīngqīng should be spelled 青青 or 晴晴. I'm really not 100% sure as I've seen it spelled both ways. So I'm confused. Lol. I'd appreciate any help that can be offered. I'm still learning, so there is a lot that I do not understand and Google is not helpful. 😅😶 Thank you for this video and for your others as well.
I do not like the transliteration of my name, and since my last name is now already 李，(I use my husband's last name because mine would be way too long，if I was not married, I would still choose Li because of my nickname) My real name begins with a "J" and so my husband named me "李洁"。He did so not only because of his perception of me, but because it also closely sounds like my name. I love it, but I love ALL Chinese names, both male and female. I had no idea one of my most favorite teachers had this name. I kind of feel honored now to share a name with such a smart, beautiful person. 🙂❤
Hi: what an interesting point of departure! Indeed, when I taught English, I'd always find an equivalent in English just so native speakers could remember and pronounce the name - otherwise, the person would never be accepted and recognized by them. Hence, I can imagine how my name might be equally off putting. So I'd be interested in something that would be recognisable and sympathetic to native Chinese speakers. So let's see if you can help me...
My Chinese name I came up with recently (with the help of friends) is 鲁肃 (鲁棒的鲁，肃然的肃), after the noble, charitable, and wise strategist of the Wu kingdom - a man who I aspire to be like. Also since my name is Sarmed Alwan, Su and Lu sound reminisicent of my name.
Hello there! I'm a beginner in learning Chinese and my teacher gave me the name 程莉英. I also love your Chinese language tutorials and trivial videos as this will help me a lot in studying the Chinese 😊💜
For a last name I definitely want 安, I like the sound, the meaning, the look of the character plus it's similar to the first syllable of my given name so in both English and Chinese the first sound would be somewhat alike. Haven't come up with a first name yet, I want something that feels like it fits and I haven't come across that yet.
My parents gave me 林志杰 at birth But I when changed my english name from Jack to John, so I decided it would be relevant to change my Chinese name as well to 林至傑 It's pronounced the same and carries nearly the same meaning...which is kind of parallel to the names of Jack and John having the same meaning. That being said, I think it would be interesting if you would do a video about the different types of names in Chinese: Courtesy Names, Artistic Names, Posthumous names, etc. I've read up on them because I have an interest in my cultural history, but as an ABC I don't get sufficient insight to the how/why of these names. I just remember being very confused when reading about historical figures who are referenced by multiple names. Stuff like 曹操 (Cao Cao) having a courtesy name of 孟德 (Meng de) was very confusing to me when I went through Ro3K. I was also confused by Bruce Lee, because his actual name is 李振藩 (Lee Jun Fan), but he goes by 李小龍 (Lee Xiao Long). Would that be considered a Courtesy Name or a Stage/Art name?
Speaking about confusions: I realized many people have a tendency to ignore hyphens all together. So if you want to be sure, spell the name (like Bruce Lee's chinese name 李振藩) either Junfan or JunFan, no space, no hyphen, and anyone will understand its one name. Jun-Fan could look for western ppl like a double-barrelled given name (like Anna-Marie). And Jun Fan looks like two seperate names. If a westerner reads Jun Fan Lee, he will think Fan is a middle name and only Jun the given name. Junfan or JunFan makes 100% clear its one name.
我的中国名字是 ”苏丽智“。你觉得好听吗？At first my teacher gave me a name of 李智 and I've used this name for a long time. After that I've just found out my real surname (my grandparents are 潮州人) which is 苏，so I decided to change 李 to 苏 but still want to keep the word that has a sound of "li" in my name, so I used 丽 and also keep 智 at the end. Many years later, I've just known that 智 is commonly used in a boy name ... but I'm a girl lol. Is it okay to continue using this name, "苏丽智" ?
HI. What is the significance of 曲小倩 for female? I watched your video and read articles about the appropriate manner to give Chinese names. But I am not sure how they got this Chinese name. It is unrelated to the English translation of the name and natal chart of the person.
When I started learning, my friend just called me 罗宾, though recently I decided to go by 罗怡雯 which I think alludes to my legal name well enough and sounds quite nice. Hopefully not awkward or clunky 😂
@Ana 安娜 Is a popular translation of Anna 安 sound like ON 娜 normally used for girl names and sounds like Na Or you can call 亞 娜 亞sound like Ar but I prefer 安娜if between those two
@Ana Anna and Ana sound quite similar so using both as a Chinese name is okay, 安娜 would look and sound better for a girl But If you’d like you could use a name that is more rich in cultural meaning for your Chinese name
My Chinese friends gave me the name 安馨雅. I still don't quite understand the meaning of 馨 but nevertheless I really like my name 🙂 everyone tells me it's a beautiful name
”安“ means "peaceful", "ease"，"馨“ means "fragrance", " virtuous", "雅" means ”elegant“ and "graceful". "馨" and "雅" are usually used for girls. It is a beautiful Chinese name.
I do not think it's possible but here it is: Predrag, "pre" in the language of the name origin means "too" in English (太 ), and "drag" is "dear" in English, (亲爱的 ). Oh, yes, born in late October; Zodiac sign Scorpio; year of the dog.) Thanks.
My friend transliterated my name to 布莱克, but another friend said 布雷克 is better because the second character is for women. But maybe I will ask them to give me a real Chinese name XD
My Chinese name is 蔡尤雅 (family name: Cai/Chua).. Historically, Chinese-Indonesians were not allowed to have Chinese name officially due to the New Order Era. Therefore, we have to use non-Chinese names. Since many still want to use the Chinese family name for the last name, we would have to modify our name so it doesn't sound "Chinese". For example: 'Chua' will be modified into Chuaniago, Chuadri, Chuarsa..etc.. 'Tan' will be modified into Tanadi, Tanuwijaya, Tandri, etc. "Wong" will be modified into Wongso, Wongsonegoro, etc. 'Lim' will be modified into Limarta, Limasi, Halim, Salim, etc...and many more.
I loved this video! it talks about something I've been looking up to for a really long time. I've been thinking about getting a chinese name, tho I truly like 战 as a first name I'm not sure yet and I would like if you could help me out with this one. 谢谢你的帮助！
Your teaching has helped me immensely. Thank you. Can you please give me feedback on my Chinese name: 燕飞. It was chosen to both resemble the sounding of my birth name plus conveying a nice image of a flying swallow and to use an authentic Chinese family name . Your feedback is so appreciated. Thank you.
I have a name that is hard for most Americans to spell and pronounce (I'm American too), and when I studied Chinese my teacher gave me the name 羅卉思. It took me like a semester to learn how to write it. Then I moved to mainland China, where it's 罗卉思, but come to find out tons of people either don't know how to read or write the middle character, even though it's so simple! It seems like it's my destiny to have a hard to write or pronounce name. (I have a bank account that ended up being for "罗奔思," got X-rays at the hospital for "罗寒思" ... the list goes on ...)
Thank you for this helpful video. I'm a new student of Mandarin and am looking for a Chinese name. I looked at the your pdf and I chose 白 as a surname (my Danish surname is Bak). I have two given names, Said (sa-īd) and Allan. The surname + given name combination ideas I came up with are: 1. 白尚文 2. 白学德 3. 白哲德 4. 白学文 Are any of these good sounding names or do you have a better suggestion? 谢谢
I chose 笪鱼镎 (Da Yuna) because my surname starts with Da, my zodiac sign is Pisces and na is for neptunium cause I like the color of silver and I just needed smth for na
can u plzz tell me that the name li(3rd tone) hua(1st tone) is a good name? (i don't have a chinese keyboard so i write it in this way) and what is the meaning of this name in english.
老师们好 I wanted to ask that Can I use 晨 as a surname? My friend suggested me a name '晨曦' I really like the meaning of this name so is it fine or should I add some surname with this like only 陈曦 ？ And Can you please translate my other name 'Deepakshi' in Chinese
now my name is 夏星 (summer star) because my english name is "patrick" and patrick is the star from spongebob haha. also, i am a city pop, vaporwave and synthwave lover, and these musical genres have a very strong summer vibe =)
I first chose the surname Hong as it’s close my last name and I would like 龙 as I was born in year of dragon but I don’t want to copy Bruce Lee, how about 圣龙 or 道龙 or 祖龙 ? Which might pair best with 洪 ?
My name is Ekaterina which originally means "pure" and my Chinese name is 罗清莹 because of the similar meaning. But my Chinese friends call me Kā tè （咖特）because it is closer to my English name Kate.
I chose the name 孟安力 because my last name starts with a M and I liked 孟the most, I chose 安 because I tend to be quite and 力 because even though I'm quite I can be strong.
thank you i was planning to make my self a Chinese name but i cannot find a name for me i was very thankful now i can have a Chinese name yeah and i like watching Chinese movie/drama and im learning Chinese and i was watching all of your vids
Hi everyday chinese, I'm always confused about how 就 is used. I always see it in sentences but I dont know why its there. Can you tell me how to use 就 works? Thank you so much!!
It is a localisation of Jason...mostly seen as Chinese version of Jason(jie sen) rather than a meaningful combinations of characters, although it could be argued that the 杰 could be from 杰出
