安乐文 Ān Lèwén
- 安 ān Family name
- 乐 lè happy
- 文 wén writing
安 is a common family name; 乐 and 文 for Levi’s L and W.
利瓦伊 Lìwǎyī
我叫利瓦伊。 Wǒ jiào Lìwǎyī. My name is Levi.
安乐文 Ān Lèwén
安 is a common family name; 乐 and 文 for Levi’s L and W.
张力伟 Zhāng Lìwěi
张 is a common family name; 力 and 伟 for Levi’s L and W.
孔力武 Kǒng Lìwǔ
孔 is a common family name; 力 and 武 for Levi’s L and W.
Add your last name for a family name that matches it.
Levi is 利瓦伊 (Lìwǎyī) in Chinese. To say “My name is Levi”, say 我叫利瓦伊 (Wǒ jiào Lìwǎyī).
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.