马安林 Mǎ Ānlín
- 马 mǎ Family name
- 安 ān safe
- 林 lín forest
马 is a common family name; 安 and 林 for Oliver’s a vowel and L.
奥利弗 Àolìfú
我叫奥利弗。 Wǒ jiào Àolìfú. My name is Oliver.
马安林 Mǎ Ānlín
马 is a common family name; 安 and 林 for Oliver’s a vowel and L.
金恩林 Jīn Ēnlín
金 is a common family name; 恩 and 林 for Oliver’s a vowel and L.
孙安林 Sūn Ānlín
孙 is a common family name; 安 and 林 for Oliver’s a vowel and L.
Add your last name for a family name that matches it.
Oliver is 奥利弗 (Àolìfú) in Chinese. To say “My name is Oliver”, say 我叫奥利弗 (Wǒ jiào Àolìfú).
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.