倪恩婉 Ní Ēnwǎn
- 倪 ní Family name
- 恩 ēn kindness
- 婉 wǎn tactful
倪 is a common family name; 恩 and 婉 for Ava’s a vowel and W.
艾娃 Àiwá
我叫艾娃。 Wǒ jiào Àiwá. My name is Ava.
倪恩婉 Ní Ēnwǎn
倪 is a common family name; 恩 and 婉 for Ava’s a vowel and W.
李恩婉 Lǐ Ēnwǎn
李 is a common family name; 恩 and 婉 for Ava’s a vowel and W.
沈恩文 Shěn Ēnwén
沈 is a common family name; 恩 and 文 for Ava’s a vowel and W.
Add your last name for a family name that matches it.
Ava is 艾娃 (Àiwá) in Chinese. To say “My name is Ava”, say 我叫艾娃 (Wǒ jiào Àiwá).
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.