安桃玛 Ān Táomǎ
- 安 ān Family name
- 桃 táo peach
- 玛 mǎ agate
安 is a common family name; 桃 and 玛 echo tǎ mǎ, how Chinese begins Tamara (塔玛拉).

塔玛拉 Tǎmǎlā
我叫塔玛拉。 Wǒ jiào Tǎmǎlā. My name is Tamara.
Tamara en chino se escribe 塔玛拉 (Tǎmǎlā).
安桃玛 Ān Táomǎ
安 is a common family name; 桃 and 玛 echo tǎ mǎ, how Chinese begins Tamara (塔玛拉).
倪棠曼 Ní Tángmàn
倪 is a common family name; 棠 and 曼 echo tǎ mǎ, how Chinese begins Tamara (塔玛拉).
王桃玛 Wáng Táomǎ
王 is a common family name; 桃 and 玛 echo tǎ mǎ, how Chinese begins Tamara (塔玛拉).
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Tamara is 塔玛拉 (Tǎmǎlā) in Chinese. To say “My name is Tamara”, say 我叫塔玛拉 (Wǒ jiào Tǎmǎlā).
Nothing as a whole: Chinese picks 塔玛拉 for how it sounds, Tǎmǎlā, close to Tamara. On its own, 塔 means pagoda and 拉 to pull.
Tamara is written 塔玛拉, 3 characters: 塔 (12 strokes), 玛 (7 strokes), 拉 (8 strokes). Each is drawn stroke by stroke on this page, in the order you write it.
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.
Meanings from our own dictionary. Chinese writes some names more than one way.