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Chinese seal generator
Type your name in Chinese or English and see it carved as a red seal.
Now read them in a real story
What is a Chinese seal?
A stamp carved with a name or a short phrase, called 印章 (yìnzhāng) or 图章 (túzhāng), and a “chop” in English. Pressed into red paste, 印泥 (yìnní), traditionally ground cinnabar in oil, it signs a painting, a letter or a document. Most are cut in soft stone; old imperial seals were jade.
What is the difference between 白文 and 朱文?
白文 (báiwén), “white characters”, cuts the characters into the stone, so the print is red with the name in white. 朱文 (zhūwén), “red characters”, cuts away the ground, so the name prints red inside a red border. A name seal is often 白文 and a phrase seal 朱文, but either is right.
Why does it add 印 or 之印?
印 (yìn) means seal, so 张明月印 reads “the seal of Zhang Mingyue”. A three-character name takes 印 to fill a square of four; a two-character name takes 之印 (zhī yìn), “seal of”. Turn it off to carve only what you typed.
Which way do you read a seal?
Top to bottom, starting with the right-hand column, then the left, as Chinese was written. The family name sits at the top right.
Is this seal script?
No. Most carved seals use seal script (篆书, zhuànshū), the oldest style, which few people can read. This one is carved in regular script (楷书, kǎishū) so anyone can read your name. For a real stone seal, a seal carver will cut it in seal script for you.
How do I get my name in Chinese?
Type it in English and the generator gives you a Chinese-style name made from its sounds: a family name and two given characters, each with its meaning. Press Another name for a different one.
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Carved in the brush font Ma Shan Zheng, under the SIL Open Font License. Chinese-style names from our own name list; meanings from our own dictionary. Facts from Wikipedia’s Seal (East Asia). Nothing you type is kept.