潘安木 Pān Ānmù
- 潘 pān Family name
- 安 ān safe
- 木 mù tree
潘 is a common family name; 安 and 木 for Amy’s a vowel and M.
艾米 Àimǐ
我叫艾米。 Wǒ jiào Àimǐ. My name is Amy.
潘安木 Pān Ānmù
潘 is a common family name; 安 and 木 for Amy’s a vowel and M.
白爱木 Bái Àimù
白 is a common family name; 爱 and 木 for Amy’s a vowel and M.
李恩敏 Lǐ Ēnmǐn
李 is a common family name; 恩 and 敏 for Amy’s a vowel and M.
Add your last name for a family name that matches it.
Amy is 艾米 (Àimǐ) in Chinese. To say “My name is Amy”, say 我叫艾米 (Wǒ jiào Àimǐ).
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.