Something About Chinese Names

慈欣颖

就读学校：河北省阜城县第四中学

指导教师：张超

Dear Jack，

I’m very glad to know that you’ll come to China tolearn Chinese. And you want to know about Chinesenames. Now， I’d liketo tell you something about them.Chinese names are different from English names. InChinese， family names always come first and givennames come last. Given names usually have somespecial meanings. We also had informal names whenwe were little kids， such asCongcong， Nana and so on.Here are a few names for you to choose， Zhang Jian，Liu Cong， and Zhang Youhao. Jian means beinghealthy， Cong means being smart and Youhao meansbeing friendly. Zhang Jian is my favorite. I hope youwill like it.

Hope to see you soon.

Yours，

Ci Xinying