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Get your Chinese name

A name that sounds like yours and means something you actually want — built the way a Mandarin teacher builds it, not guessed by a machine.

Start with your name

Your given name is what matters — the characters will be chosen to sound like it. Your family name is only a hint for picking a Chinese surname.

文化小贴士 · One thing to know first

王family name小明given nameWáng Xiǎomíng

In Chinese the family name comes first and the given name follows. A name is usually two or three characters in total — and your friends and teacher will call you by the given name alone.

Given name 名Family name 姓 (optional)Used only to suggest a Chinese surname — you can change it in the next step.

Name style

How your name is made

姓A surname that echoes yoursChinese names put the family name first. We match one to the sound of your family name — Rossi finds 罗 Luó — and you can swap it for any of the 81 on the list.

音A given name that sounds like youYour given name is the one people will actually call you, so its characters are chosen to echo how your name sounds. Marco becomes 马可 Mǎkě.

意A meaning you pickedOne character can carry a wish instead of a sound — courage, calm, a long healthy life. You choose which; every character comes from a list a teacher wrote by hand.

Why not just ask an AI?

Because a generated character can be rare, dated, or quietly funny to a native speaker — and you would be the last to know. Every character here comes from a list Teacher Jane keeps herself, with its meaning written out, so you can read exactly what your name says before you take it.

Want to hear yourself say it?

A name is the first thing you learn to say in a new language. Teacher Jane teaches one-to-one, online, from the very first sound.

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