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English names

Your English name, written in Chinese.

The characters Chinese speakers actually use for 2,230 English names — with pinyin, what each character means, and where the spelling comes from.

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English name 莎拉 shā lā Zara English name 塞尔达 sāi ěr dá Zelda English name 齐娜 qí nà Zena English name 齐尼娅 qí ní yà Zenia English name 泽诺比垭 zé nuò bǐ yā Zenobia English name 齐格勒 qí gé lēi Ziegler English name 佐伊 zuǒ yī Zoe English name 佐伊 zuǒ yī Zoey English name 左拉 zuǒ lā Zola English name 卓拉 zhuó lā Zora

These are spellings, not chosen names

A transliteration keeps the sound of your English name. The characters are picked to match that sound, and most carry an ordinary meaning of their own — which is why the same name can be written a few different ways. Chinese readers will recognise these as foreign names, not as names a Chinese family would choose.

If you want a Chinese name built the Chinese way — a surname, then a given name chosen for meaning — start with the Finder. Already have a Chinese name? Check it for sound, meaning, and awkward homophones.

Every page on this list shows where its spelling came from: published name lists, dictionaries of foreign names in Chinese, and names real foreigners in China actually use.