蔡素瑞 Cài Sùruì
- 蔡 cài Family name
- 素 sù plain
- 瑞 ruì auspicious
蔡 is a common family name; 素 and 瑞 for Sarah’s S and R.
莎拉 Shālā
我叫莎拉。 Wǒ jiào Shālā. My name is Sarah.
蔡素瑞 Cài Sùruì
蔡 is a common family name; 素 and 瑞 for Sarah’s S and R.
黄思荣 Huáng Sīróng
黄 is a common family name; 思 and 荣 for Sarah’s S and R.
谢素瑞 Xiè Sùruì
谢 is a common family name; 素 and 瑞 for Sarah’s S and R.
Add your last name for a family name that matches it.
Sarah is 莎拉 (Shālā) in Chinese. To say “My name is Sarah”, say 我叫莎拉 (Wǒ jiào Shālā).
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.