How to Say ‘My name is Emily Smith.’ in Traditional Chinese
我叫 Emily Smith 。
wǒ jiào Emily Smith
[wo jiào]
💬 Usage Tip: 叫 (jiào) means "to be called". In Chinese the family name normally comes first, so a Taiwanese person would say 我叫王小美.
Phrase Breakdown
我
wǒ
[wo]
I; me
The first-person pronoun used to talk about yourself.
我想多了解你們公司的制度，所以先自我介紹。
I want to learn more about your company’s system, so I’ll introduce myself first.
叫
jiào
[jiào]
to be called; to be named
Verb used to say what someone's name is.
我叫小明。
My name is Xiaoming.
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