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tiffsmith -

I plan to learn Chinese along with my children. Tomorrow, as a fun little project I thought we
could write our names in Chinese and become familiar with them (up to now, we have been writing
man, woman, child, mountain, fire, etc). before we proceed however, I would like to make sure that
there isn't anything derogatory associated with any of the terms.

阿迪孙
佳德
萨姆
蒂法妮

Thanks in advance for your help!!



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rootfool -

Most foreigner's name are translated by pronounciation,so they haven't any meanings.Don't worry
about that.










tiffsmith -

Thats good to know. Thank you!

谢谢










skylee -

Are the names Edison, Samuel, Jade, Tiffany?

The Chinese names you quoted are tranliteration. Sometimes we would use more beautiful /
meaningful characters to make them more beautiful / meaningful. I think the characters used in
your case are ok, although some people might find the last character in the first name, i.e. 孙,
a bit odd in a name. The character itself is a surname, but it means grandson, and if someone who
is not your grandparent calls you grandson it could be an insult. But I am probably thinking too
much.

佳德 has a very good meaning -> good virtue

The Jeweller Tiffany calls itself 蒂芙尼 in Chinese.










tiffsmith -

Hello Skylee, thank you for your response!

The first name should be Addison, the other ones are spot on. Do you know of a better way to say
Addison or anything very similar without 孙?

How about 阿迪森?

Its nice to know that Jade means "good virtue", my son (Jade) will be pleased to learn that.

Thanks again! 谢谢

Tiffany










skylee -

阿迪森 is ok.

Jade is a piece of fine stone. 佳德 (Jiade) means "good virtue".










tiffsmith -

Thanks again!










CyraSafia -

although names are translated by pronunciation, but for some of the names there are fixed
translations.
I think Samuel is often translated as 山姆, for it's simpler, and "山" is used more often than
"萨"
Tiffany is always translated as "蒂凡尼" , be cause of the famous movie "Breakfast at Tiffany's"
however, I think "佳德" is a very good translation, cause it has both similar pronunciation and
good meaning.










tiffsmith -

Thank you CyraSafia, I like the translation of Samuel and Tiffany you gave. It looks like it will
be a little easier to write.

Today's Chinese lesson is going to be fun! We start Rosetta Stone next week, so thats when we
really get into the language, but we are having a lot of fun writing and becoming familiar with
the characters!

谢谢










CheukMo -

tiffsmith,

May I ask what book or program you are using as the introduction? Is it about writing?


謝謝你,

卓武












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