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名字

míng zi

Old HSK 1 HSK 3.0 level 1 2-character word

名字 (míng zi) means "name (of a person or thing)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 1 word, and was HSK 1 in the old six-level list.

What 名字 means

1. name (of a person or thing)

The characters in 名字

• 名míngname; noun (part of speech); place (e.g. among winners)
• 字zìletter; symbol; character

Example sentences

• 那名字是肯。
  That name is Ken.
• 叫什么名字?
  What's your name?
• 我没有名字。
  I have no name.
• 你叫什幺名字？
  What is your name?
• 您叫什幺名字？
  What is your name?
• 他叫什幺名字？
  What is his name?

Sounds the same

Read míng zi, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 明子see 松明

Where 名字 is taught

In the GraphChinese course it is part of Family and People (HSK 1), each one a topic in the dependency graph of HSK 1–6 that opens only once its prerequisites are solid.

Go deeper

• Every HSK 1 word, with the rest of its level.
• The four tones and the neutral tone, to read míng zi correctly.
• Look up another word in the free dictionary.