张爱明 Zhāng Àimíng
- 张 zhāng Family name
- 爱 ài to love
- 明 míng bright
张 is a common family name; 爱 and 明 for Emma’s a vowel and M.
艾玛 Àimǎ
我叫艾玛。 Wǒ jiào Àimǎ. My name is Emma.
张爱明 Zhāng Àimíng
张 is a common family name; 爱 and 明 for Emma’s a vowel and M.
陈爱敏 Chén Àimǐn
陈 is a common family name; 爱 and 敏 for Emma’s a vowel and M.
白爱美 Bái Àiměi
白 is a common family name; 爱 and 美 for Emma’s a vowel and M.
Add your last name for a family name that matches it.
Emma is 艾玛 (Àimǎ) in Chinese. To say “My name is Emma”, say 我叫艾玛 (Wǒ jiào Àimǎ).
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.