What is my name in Chinese (full form and 3-character form)?

2014-02-27 12:51 am
My name in English is David Otto. I have some questions with regards to how to write my name in Chinese.

Looking at a dictionary, "David" is 大卫 and "Otto" is 奥托, but I wonder if I were to write my full form name in Chinese, whether it would go 奥托 大卫 (surname first, as normal Chinese names go) or 大卫 奥托 (surname last, as people in anglophone countries say and Chinese people may want to imitate). Which way is more common for writing Western names in China?

I would also like a Chinese-style three-character name. My part-Chinese girlfriend insists that I just use 大卫 as anything else would just sound weird, and maybe she has a point. Nonetheless, I'm sure there are many Daweis in China already and I'd still like to have a character to represent my surname.

She says 托 大卫 and 奥 大卫 sound strange. Does anyone have a suggestion that either sounds vaguely like "Otto" or means "wealth" (the original meaning of the name)? Thank you.

回答 (2)

2014-02-27 2:46 am
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Checking the Chinese Wikipedia, I notice that they leave Western names in their original form :

'David Bowie' : 大卫·鲍伊

'David Cameron' : 戴维·卡梅伦

'Nicolaus Otto' : 尼古拉斯·奥托

'Miranda Otto' : 米兰达·奥图

'Otto Jespersen' : 奥托·叶斯柏森
2014-02-27 3:39 pm
I personally suggest you keep your full surname as 奥托. Its because there are actually Chinese who has 2-worded surname and those are common. (Common 2-worded surname example: Szeto司徒) If you don't like it of course you can choose not to :)
Common words that have the meaning of wealth are : 富(rich), 金(gold), 发(to gain wealth), etc
I'm quite sure your girlfriend have told you about those words already since shes a Chinese so I will suggest something different (i guess?! lol)
Maybe you can use the word æ°´, which literally means water. However it also has the meaning of money and wealth because there is an old phrase"水为财“ which means ”water is wealth". This phrase is from the Feng Shui things in China which means there is no scientific explanation of it. Hope this can help you.
參考: Myself as a Chinese


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