Jackie Robinson and the Year of the Boar : Help with Chinese character writing..please! ?

Question

To introduce a novel (Jackie Robinson and the year of the Boar) to my middle school reading students, I would like for them to write their name in Chinese characters. Is there a website where they can insert their name and then see how to write their name in Chinese? I would really appreciate the help. Thanks.

Answer 1

I've used this site:

http://chineseculture.about.com/library/...

but...if your students have very unusual names you might be out of luck there.  If that's the case, maybe just have them learn to write some meaningful characters.  That website has some of those as well.  It might be even more beneficial for students to learn how to write one or two characters the Chinese way...meaning with the correct stroke-order (which line is written first, etc).  Just an idea.  Contact me and I can e-mail you some of the things I have.