潘功柏 Pān Gōngbǎi
- 潘 pān Family name
- 功 gōng merit
- 柏 bǎi cypress
潘 is a common family name; 功 and 柏 for Gabriel’s G and B.
加布里埃尔 Jiābùlǐ'āi'ěr
我叫加布里埃尔。 Wǒ jiào Jiābùlǐ'āi'ěr. My name is Gabriel.
潘功柏 Pān Gōngbǎi
潘 is a common family name; 功 and 柏 for Gabriel’s G and B.
白广宝 Bái Guǎngbǎo
白 is a common family name; 广 and 宝 for Gabriel’s G and B.
李国博 Lǐ Guóbó
李 is a common family name; 国 and 博 for Gabriel’s G and B.
Add your last name for a family name that matches it.
Gabriel is 加布里埃尔 (Jiābùlǐ'āi'ěr) in Chinese. To say “My name is Gabriel”, say 我叫加布里埃尔 (Wǒ jiào Jiābùlǐ'āi'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.