任天宁 Rén Tiānníng
- 任 rén Family name
- 天 tiān sky
- 宁 níng peaceful
任 is a common family name; 天 and 宁 for Tony’s T and N.
托尼 Tuōní
我叫托尼。 Wǒ jiào Tuōní. My name is Tony.
任天宁 Rén Tiānníng
任 is a common family name; 天 and 宁 for Tony’s T and N.
沈泰宁 Shěn Tàiníng
沈 is a common family name; 泰 and 宁 for Tony’s T and N.
李泰诺 Lǐ Tàinuò
李 is a common family name; 泰 and 诺 for Tony’s T and N.
Add your last name for a family name that matches it.
Tony is 托尼 (Tuōní) in Chinese. To say “My name is Tony”, say 我叫托尼 (Wǒ jiào Tuōní).
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.