潘巍龙 Pān Wēilóng
- 潘 pān Family name
- 巍 wēi towering
- 龙 lóng dragon
潘 is a common family name; 巍 and 龙 for Will’s W and L.
威尔 Wēi'ěr
我叫威尔。 Wǒ jiào Wēi'ěr. My name is Will.
潘巍龙 Pān Wēilóng
潘 is a common family name; 巍 and 龙 for Will’s W and L.
沈武龙 Shěn Wǔlóng
沈 is a common family name; 武 and 龙 for Will’s W and L.
李伟磊 Lǐ Wěilěi
李 is a common family name; 伟 and 磊 for Will’s W and L.
Add your last name for a family name that matches it.
Will is 威尔 (Wēi'ěr) in Chinese. To say “My name is Will”, say 我叫威尔 (Wǒ jiào Wēi'ěr).
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.