Re: Name spelling for a TATOO
Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2003 2:49 pm
Samantha, Chinese doesn't use an alphabet persay. Chinese characters represent entire words or ideas alone. So there really is no way of "spelling" a word. There are two ways to go about doing this:
1. Research the original, classic European meaning of your name and translate that.
2. The harder way is to find characters that when pronounced in the dialect of your choice, sound like your name. This can be tedious and difficult to find satisfying characters for your name, and believe me, no one wants to do this for you. That's the kind of work professionals do when phonetically adapting the names of restaraunts and other proper titles into Chinese characters for use in China.
You'd be much better off asking someone you know to help you with this anyways... trust me.
1. Research the original, classic European meaning of your name and translate that.
2. The harder way is to find characters that when pronounced in the dialect of your choice, sound like your name. This can be tedious and difficult to find satisfying characters for your name, and believe me, no one wants to do this for you. That's the kind of work professionals do when phonetically adapting the names of restaraunts and other proper titles into Chinese characters for use in China.
You'd be much better off asking someone you know to help you with this anyways... trust me.