名字
míng zi
In real, traceable use. Part of the curated seed collection; community review is coming.
A name: a person's given name or full name, or what a thing is called. The standard question is 你叫什么名字 'what is your name?', answered with 我叫 and the name. The second syllable has a neutral tone: míngzi. The surname alone is 姓.
Tên: tên riêng hoặc cả họ tên của một người, cũng như tên gọi của sự vật. Câu hỏi quen thuộc là 你叫什么名字 (bạn tên là gì?), trả lời bằng 我叫 kèm theo tên. Âm tiết thứ hai đọc thanh nhẹ: míngzi. Riêng họ thì gọi là 姓.
NounRegister: neutral
Examples
Editorial example (illustrative, not a corpus attestation) — awaiting a native-speaker check
Sources & notes
Hán-Việt bridge batch 063 (2026-11-14). Headword, Traditional form and pinyin checked against CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0) source ↗ · Hán-Việt reading: Unihan kVietnamese source ↗ · No Vietnamese entry is linked as its twin; the Hán-Việt reading is given character by character. Definition, literal gloss and example sentence are original; the example has not had a native-speaker check yet.
Common questions
What does “名字” mean?
A name: a person's given name or full name, or what a thing is called. The standard question is 你叫什么名字 'what is your name?', answered with 我叫 and the name. The second syllable has a neutral tone: míngzi. The surname alone is 姓.
Is “名字” formal or informal?
名字 is generally neutral.