金安宁 Jīn Ānníng
- 金 jīn Family name
- 安 ān safe
- 宁 níng peaceful
金 is a common family name; 安 and 宁 for Ann’s a vowel and N.
安 Ān
我叫安。 Wǒ jiào Ān. My name is Ann.
金安宁 Jīn Ānníng
金 is a common family name; 安 and 宁 for Ann’s a vowel and N.
马爱楠 Mǎ Àinán
马 is a common family name; 爱 and 楠 for Ann’s a vowel and N.
杨恩妮 Yáng Ēnnī
杨 is a common family name; 恩 and 妮 for Ann’s a vowel and N.
Add your last name for a family name that matches it.
Ann is 安 (Ān) in Chinese. To say “My name is Ann”, say 我叫安 (Wǒ jiào Ān).
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.