Name in Chinese
name · HSK 1
名字
- 名 name
- 字 character
Counted with 个: 一个名字
你叫什么名字？ What's your name?
Other ways to say name
More words with 名 or 字
How do you say name in Chinese?
Name in Chinese is 名字 (míng zi). You can also say 名 (míng), 称 (chēng), 名称 (míng chēng), 命名 (mìng míng).
Which word should I use?
Start with the first one: it is the easiest on the HSK list. The others say it too, often in a more formal way or for a narrower sense; each one’s page has real sentences that show how it is used.
Where do these words come from?
The CC-CEDICT dictionary’s meanings for the official HSK word list. A word is shown for an English word when that is one of its first meanings; the easiest word whose first meaning it is comes first.
More free tools
Greetings: hello, good morning and goodbye. Measure words: the classifier for any noun. Tone practice: say a word and see your tones. Read any Mandarin: point at a word for its meaning.
Meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Chinese often has more than one way to say a word.