张迪楠 Zhāng Dínán
- 张 zhāng Family name
- 迪 dí to enlighten
- 楠 nán Phoebe nanmu (tree)
张 is a common family name; 迪 and 楠 for Danielle’s D and N.
丹妮尔 Dānnī'ěr
我叫丹妮尔。 Wǒ jiào Dānnī'ěr. My name is Danielle.
张迪楠 Zhāng Dínán
张 is a common family name; 迪 and 楠 for Danielle’s D and N.
安丹宁 Ān Dānníng
安 is a common family name; 丹 and 宁 for Danielle’s D and N.
高丹诺 Gāo Dānnuò
高 is a common family name; 丹 and 诺 for Danielle’s D and N.
Add your last name for a family name that matches it.
Danielle is 丹妮尔 (Dānnī'ěr) in Chinese. To say “My name is Danielle”, say 我叫丹妮尔 (Wǒ jiào Dānnī'ěr).
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.