How a name gets made.
No generator, no twenty-name dump. A short brief, a considered set of options, and a check by someone who speaks the language.
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Step one — the brief
We ask about your background, the qualities you would want a name to carry, how you feel about sounding traditional or modern, and — the question that changes the most — where you will actually use the name.
That last answer decides the standard: Simplified characters and mainland transliteration conventions if you are heading to mainland China; Traditional characters and a Cantonese-first reading if your life is in Hong Kong. Tell us “not sure” and we will build both and explain the difference.
Step two — the options
Characters are chosen for meaning first, then tested for sound. We read each candidate aloud in the language you will speak, check the tones, and look for sound-alikes — the accidental phrases a name can collide with.
Then the human pass: does this read as a real person’s name, or as a phrase someone assembled? That judgement is the product. It is why we do not sell a list of twenty.
Step three — the report
You get the characters, how they are read, what each one means and carries, where the name fits, and — printed on the delivery — the review level: what we checked, and what we did not.