白安巍 Bái Ānwēi
- 白 bái Family name
- 安 ān safe
- 巍 wēi towering
白 is a common family name; 安 and 巍 for Owen’s a vowel and W.
欧文 Ōuwén
我叫欧文。 Wǒ jiào Ōuwén. My name is Owen.
白安巍 Bái Ānwēi
白 is a common family name; 安 and 巍 for Owen’s a vowel and W.
潘恩武 Pān Ēnwǔ
潘 is a common family name; 恩 and 武 for Owen’s a vowel and W.
张安伟 Zhāng Ānwěi
张 is a common family name; 安 and 伟 for Owen’s a vowel and W.
Add your last name for a family name that matches it.
Owen is 欧文 (Ōuwén) in Chinese. To say “My name is Owen”, say 我叫欧文 (Wǒ jiào Ōuwén).
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.