白民仁 Bái Mínrén
- 白 bái Family name
- 民 mín the people
- 仁 rén benevolence
白 is a common family name; 民 and 仁 for Marcus’s M and R.
马库斯 Mǎkùsī
我叫马库斯。 Wǒ jiào Mǎkùsī. My name is Marcus.
白民仁 Bái Mínrén
白 is a common family name; 民 and 仁 for Marcus’s M and R.
潘木仁 Pān Mùrén
潘 is a common family name; 木 and 仁 for Marcus’s M and R.
倪明仁 Ní Míngrén
倪 is a common family name; 明 and 仁 for Marcus’s M and R.
Add your last name for a family name that matches it.
Marcus is 马库斯 (Mǎkùsī) in Chinese. To say “My name is Marcus”, say 我叫马库斯 (Wǒ jiào Mǎkùsī).
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.