安丹宁 Ān Dānníng
- 安 ān Family name
- 丹 dān red
- 宁 níng peaceful
安 is a common family name; 丹 and 宁 for Diane’s D and N.
黛安 Dài'ān
我叫黛安。 Wǒ jiào Dài'ān. My name is Diane.
安丹宁 Ān Dānníng
安 is a common family name; 丹 and 宁 for Diane’s D and N.
张迪楠 Zhāng Dínán
张 is a common family name; 迪 and 楠 for Diane’s D and N.
孔蝶妮 Kǒng Diénī
孔 is a common family name; 蝶 and 妮 for Diane’s D and N.
Add your last name for a family name that matches it.
Diane is 黛安 (Dài'ān) in Chinese. To say “My name is Diane”, say 我叫黛安 (Wǒ jiào Dài'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.