安乐凯 Ān Lèkǎi
- 安 ān Family name
- 乐 lè happy
- 凯 kǎi triumphant
安 is a common family name; 乐 and 凯 for Lucas’s L and K.
卢卡斯 Lúkǎsī
我叫卢卡斯。 Wǒ jiào Lúkǎsī. My name is Lucas.
安乐凯 Ān Lèkǎi
安 is a common family name; 乐 and 凯 for Lucas’s L and K.
张林康 Zhāng Línkāng
张 is a common family name; 林 and 康 for Lucas’s L and K.
孔林凯 Kǒng Línkǎi
孔 is a common family name; 林 and 凯 for Lucas’s L and K.
Add your last name for a family name that matches it.
Lucas is 卢卡斯 (Lúkǎsī) in Chinese. To say “My name is Lucas”, say 我叫卢卡斯 (Wǒ jiào Lúkǎsī).
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.