秦楠康 Qín Nánkāng
- 秦 qín Family name
- 楠 nán Phoebe nanmu (tree)
- 康 kāng healthy
秦 is a common family name; 楠 and 康 for Nicholas’s N and K.
尼古拉斯 Nígǔlāsī
我叫尼古拉斯。 Wǒ jiào Nígǔlāsī. My name is Nicholas.
秦楠康 Qín Nánkāng
秦 is a common family name; 楠 and 康 for Nicholas’s N and K.
谢宁凯 Xiè Níngkǎi
谢 is a common family name; 宁 and 凯 for Nicholas’s N and K.
曾诺康 Zēng Nuòkāng
曾 is a common family name; 诺 and 康 for Nicholas’s N and K.
Add your last name for a family name that matches it.
Nicholas is 尼古拉斯 (Nígǔlāsī) in Chinese. To say “My name is Nicholas”, say 我叫尼古拉斯 (Wǒ jiào Nígǔlāsī).
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.