Why cant your name be translated directly from English to Chinese?

Answer 1

Translating words from one language to another is simply to be able to express the words meaning in another form. Names do not have 'meanings', so can't be translated. (Names may have meaning within a particular language or culture, but if this name is translated into another language, it will lose this meaning as the new language or culture will not be associated with this applied meaning) The Chinese language does not have an alphabet, but consists of a large number of characters, each representing a word or syllable. If the character does not exist, you can not use it. A name can be translated into one or more characters strung together to represent approximately the same sound as the name, but usually not exactly the same sound. Bear in mind that Mandarin and most other spoken dialects require a word to end in a vowel, n or ng, and compare this to how many Western names end in consonents other than these.