艾米丽
Ài Mǐ Lì · tones 4-3-4
Meaning: (transliteration)
Character breakdown
Each character in 艾米丽 on its own — radical, stroke count, and core meaning.
- 艾ài
- Radical
- 艹
- Strokes
- 5
- Meaning
- mugwort, end
- 米mǐ
- Radical
- 米
- Strokes
- 6
- Meaning
- rice, meter
- 丽lí
- Radical
- 一
- Strokes
- 7
- Meaning
- beautiful, pretty
How it sounds
Tone pattern 4-3-4 (falling + falling-rising + falling).
falling → falling-rising → falling. Multi-character names carry more rhythm — read the full name aloud with your intended surname before finalizing.
Style: transliteration-standard
A standard phonetic match for the English name (used in Chinese Bibles, news translations, official documents). Useful when you want clear English-to-Chinese identifiability.
Pairing with a surname
3-character given name
Three-character given names are rare in mainland China after the 1990s. They give substantial weight — appropriate for traditional family lineages with generation characters. Pair with a single-character surname for a 4-character full name.