张珂丽 Zhāng Kēlì
- 张 zhāng Family name
- 珂 kē jade-like stone
- 丽 lì beautiful
张 is a common family name; 珂 and 丽 echo kǎ lín, how Chinese begins Karina (卡琳娜).

卡琳娜 Kǎlínnà
我叫卡琳娜。 Wǒ jiào Kǎlínnà. My name is Karina.
Karina en chino se escribe 卡琳娜 (Kǎlínnà).
张珂丽 Zhāng Kēlì
张 is a common family name; 珂 and 丽 echo kǎ lín, how Chinese begins Karina (卡琳娜).
陈可黎 Chén Kělí
陈 is a common family name; 可 and 黎 echo kǎ lín, how Chinese begins Karina (卡琳娜).
杨宽琳 Yáng Kuānlín
杨 is a common family name; 宽 and 琳 echo kǎ lín, how Chinese begins Karina (卡琳娜).
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Karina is 卡琳娜 (Kǎlínnà) in Chinese. To say “My name is Karina”, say 我叫卡琳娜 (Wǒ jiào Kǎlínnà).
Nothing as a whole: Chinese picks 卡琳娜 for how it sounds, Kǎlínnà, close to Karina. On its own, 卡 means card.
Karina is written 卡琳娜, 3 characters: 卡 (5 strokes), 琳 (12 strokes), 娜 (9 strokes). Each is drawn stroke by stroke on this page, in the order you write it.
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.
Meanings from our own dictionary. Chinese writes some names more than one way.