Show HN: AI-powered Chinese name generator

I've developed a tool that leverages AI to generate elegant Chinese names based on English names. Simply enter your English name to receive a culturally resonant Chinese name complete with a corresponding explanation, pronunciation guide, and an exquisite calligraphy card showcasing your new name.

aichinesename.com

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tanduorou

21 hours ago


1 comment

data_ders 20 hours ago

Love it! Especially the generated png summary.

One suggestion for “unsupervised”/“unlabelled” ML scenarios like this is to give 3 choices and let user pick the one most meaningful to them.

For example, my daughter’s name is Alba. It went with “white” as primary translation and gave 白 (Bai2) but felt 小白 was a little too on the nose lol.

I changed the input to be “Dawn” (another meaning of the name) and got a somewhat better result of 晨.

Might be nice to provide an extra descriptor word too.

Still very cool and wish I had this when I lived in China. I went with the transliteration of my name: 安德斯 (Anders). Regret that I didn’t get one more meaningful!

Two nits: 1) I want to see the history of names I’ve previously generated 2) in the png, the headings on each side are different but I imagine the content is the same just a different language? I.e. “Character meanings” vs “character analysis”