马安达 Mǎ Āndá
- 马 mǎ Family name
- 安 ān safe
- 达 dá to reach
马 is a common family name; 安 and 达 for Adam’s a vowel and D.
亚当 Yàdāng
我叫亚当。 Wǒ jiào Yàdāng. My name is Adam.
马安达 Mǎ Āndá
马 is a common family name; 安 and 达 for Adam’s a vowel and D.
金恩东 Jīn Ēndōng
金 is a common family name; 恩 and 东 for Adam’s a vowel and D.
孙安迪 Sūn Āndí
孙 is a common family name; 安 and 迪 for Adam’s a vowel and D.
Add your last name for a family name that matches it.
Adam is 亚当 (Yàdāng) in Chinese. To say “My name is Adam”, say 我叫亚当 (Wǒ jiào Yàdāng).
By sound, with characters picked for how they are said: Michael is 迈克尔 (Màikè’ěr). Newspapers, subtitles and books use one usual form for each common name.
A name made the Chinese way: a one-character family name first, then one or two characters picked for their meaning. Many learners use one in class.
It’s a starting point. Ask a Chinese speaker or teacher before you put it on anything that lasts, like a tattoo or a document.
Pinyin chart: every syllable, all four tones. Chinese words: the HSK list, one page each. Read any Mandarin: point at a word for its meaning.
Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese writes some names more than one way.