方康荣 Fāng Kāngróng
- 方 fāng Family name
- 康 kāng healthy
- 荣 róng honor
方 is a common family name; 康 and 荣 for Charles’s K and R.
查尔斯 Chá'ěrsī
我叫查尔斯。 Wǒ jiào Chá'ěrsī. My name is Charles.
方康荣 Fāng Kāngróng
方 is a common family name; 康 and 荣 for Charles’s K and R.
曾凯仁 Zēng Kǎirén
曾 is a common family name; 凯 and 仁 for Charles’s K and R.
唐康瑞 Táng Kāngruì
唐 is a common family name; 康 and 瑞 for Charles’s K and R.
Add your last name for a family name that matches it.
Charles is 查尔斯 (Chá'ěrsī) in Chinese. To say “My name is Charles”, say 我叫查尔斯 (Wǒ jiào Chá'ěrsī).
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.