李力松 Lǐ Lìsōng
- 李 lǐ Family name
- 力 lì force
- 松 sōng pine
李 is a common family name; 力 and 松 for Louis’s L and S.
路易斯 Lùyìsī
我叫路易斯。 Wǒ jiào Lùyìsī. My name is Louis.
李力松 Lǐ Lìsōng
李 is a common family name; 力 and 松 for Louis’s L and S.
倪龙松 Ní Lóngsōng
倪 is a common family name; 龙 and 松 for Louis’s L and S.
潘力松 Pān Lìsōng
潘 is a common family name; 力 and 松 for Louis’s L and S.
Add your last name for a family name that matches it.
Louis is 路易斯 (Lùyìsī) in Chinese. To say “My name is Louis”, say 我叫路易斯 (Wǒ jiào Lùyìsī).
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.