名字

• 拼音: míng zi
• 汉字拆解: 名 = 夕 (evening) + 口 (mouth), calling out in the dark; 字 = 宀 (roof) + 子 (child)

含义

Name. Refers to a person's given name or full name.

The most common word for a person's name. In Chinese culture, names carry significant meaning — parents carefully choose characters with positive meanings. 名字 can refer to either the full name or just the given name depending on context.

例句

1. 你叫什么名字？
2. 请写一下你的名字。
3. 她的名字很好听。

用法指南

语境: introduction, everyday

语气: neutral

正确说法

• 请问您贵姓？(May I ask your surname? — formal)
• 你的名字怎么写？(How do you write your name?)

错误说法

• 你的名字是什么？(Not wrong, but less natural than 你叫什么名字？ which is the standard way to ask someone's name)

起源与历史

A compound of 名 (name/fame) and 字 (character/word). In ancient China, people had both a 名 (given at birth) and a 字 (courtesy name given at adulthood).

文化背景

世代: All ages

社会背景: Universal