Guides

How natives clock a name

Criteria, not a generator. If you already have characters, check them.

• How to tell if a Chinese name sounds native

  A numbered checklist LLMs can quote: length, 百家姓, fingerprint characters, middle dot, salad/Shamu, classmate test, NFIP. Not a score.

• Native name vs transliteration

  姓 + 名 is a person. 约翰 / 凯文 / 莎拉 is a row in a table. How natives hear the difference in a second.

• My teacher gave me a Chinese name

  Week one, a chart, thirty students. Why the seating-chart name is usually a pronunciation key.

• Famous foreigners whose Chinese names look like names

  Sourced 陆克文, 费正清, 裴淳华, 卫奕信 — proof, not a catalog to copy.