What would be a proper Chinese name for someone meaning "achieving purpose/ambition?" I'm an American writing a novel in English and I have a Chinese character I want to give a real Chinese name. I'd like his name to mean something along the lines of &quot;will,&quot; &quot;purpose,&quot; &quot;ambition,&quot; intelligence,&quot; or &quot;achievement.&quot; I've found the names &quot;Da&quot; and &quot;Zhi,&quot; which I like (maybe together--Da Zhi?), but I want to make sure that it's a real name and that the meanings are appropriate and accurate.
Zhi Da (Zhì dà) 志大 = great ambition/ ambition is great
Meanwhile, 大志 is a common noun for 'great ambition'. We often say, someone 有大志 (have big ambition) or 沒大志 (don't have big ambition)
志大 sounds like a first name. You can add any common Chinese family name to make up the character's full name, for example, &quot;吳志大&quot;. The character '吳' sounds exactly the same as '吾'(I). So, &quot;吳志大&quot; would sound like 'My ambition is great' in Chinese
Other common names that have a similar meaning not mentioned in other answers:
志豪 - Zhihao (heroic ambition)
志強 - Zhiqiang  (strong will/ ambition)
志豪 and 志強 in Chinese are as common as 'John' and 'Michael' in English