唐爱琳 Táng Àilín
- 唐 táng Family name
- 爱 ài to love
- 琳 lín fine jade
唐 is a common family name; 爱 and 琳 for Elena’s a vowel and L.
埃琳娜 Āilínnà
我叫埃琳娜。 Wǒ jiào Āilínnà. My name is Elena.
唐爱琳 Táng Àilín
唐 is a common family name; 爱 and 琳 for Elena’s a vowel and L.
丁恩琳 Dīng Ēnlín
丁 is a common family name; 恩 and 琳 for Elena’s a vowel and L.
方爱莉 Fāng Àilì
方 is a common family name; 爱 and 莉 for Elena’s a vowel and L.
Add your last name for a family name that matches it.
Elena is 埃琳娜 (Āilínnà) in Chinese. To say “My name is Elena”, say 我叫埃琳娜 (Wǒ jiào Āilínnà).
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.