In Chinese, Flint is written 福澜 and read fú · lán. The stone that throws fire → 福 (good fortune) + 澜 (great waves).
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Flint carries the sense The stone that throws fire.
The Chinese name 福澜 answers it with 福 (Good fortune) and 澜 (The great wave) — chosen for sound and sense together, the way a Chinese parent chooses a name rather than the way a wire service transliterates one.
Carved in the Zhongshan King (中山王) bronze-inscription seal script, the name sits on the seal face as a worked square, not a typed line.
The character itself: The great wave: 门 the gate, 柬 the sorting — the roll and tumble of the sea’s water through its door. 澜 names the force that comes in bands, and 力 in the middle is no accident: the capping wave. Full 澜 page →
Two-character seal: the spark struck from stone, blessing with an edge.
Flint is written 福澜 in Mandarin (fú lán) — one character for the surname 福 and one for the given name. The characters are chosen to carry the sound and the sense of Flint rather than to transliterate it letter by letter, which is how Chinese names are actually made. On this page the seal is carved in the Zhongshan King (中山王) bronze-inscription seal script, with the Academia Sinica Chongxi Small Seal (崇羲篆體) filling any character the main font lacks.
福澜 breaks down as 福 (fú) — Good fortune — the offering-vessel under the roof; the blessing a house is built to hold; 澜 (lán) — The great wave — water with a spine in it; the spark in the river's path. The seal note we would put under it: Two-character seal: the spark struck from stone, blessing with an edge.
Pinyin: fú lán — 福 is tone 2 (a rising pitch, like the start of a question); 澜 is tone 2 (a rising pitch, like the start of a question). Mandarin has four tones plus a neutral tone, and getting them wrong is the most common mistake Western speakers make with Chinese names — the seal itself is unaffected, since the carving is of the written form.
Because names in Chinese are chosen, not inherited by sound. 澜 (lán) reads the great wave — water with a spine in it; the spark in the river's path — and its own history runs: The great wave: 门 the gate, 柬 the sorting — the roll and tumble of the sea’s water through its door. 澜 names the force that comes in bands, and 力 in the middle is no accident: the capping wave.
4 other names on this site carry at least one of the same characters — 福若丝 for Frost, 可澜 for Coral, 柯澜 for Cove, 薇澜 for Vale. Chinese names combine a family name with one or two given-name characters, so a single character can carry a hundred different people; the character page above lists every name that uses it.
Flint carries the sense The stone that throws fire. The Chinese name 福澜 answers it with 福 (Good fortune) and 澜 (The great wave) — chosen for sound and sense together, the way a Chinese parent chooses a name rather than the way a wire service transliterates one. The full account — the etymology, the bearers, and why this site renders it as 福澜 — is in the section above.
A Chinese seal (印, yìn) is the 3,000-year-old answer to the signature: a carved stamp, classically in red cinnabar ink, pressed onto documents, paintings and letters. A name seal carries your name in seal script (篆書) — the calligraphic style of the Qin dynasty. Traditionally two kinds: 朱文 (characters in red) and 白文 (characters in white, carved out of a solid red field).
Our generator transliterates your English name into a real Chinese name — not just sounds, but characters chosen for meaning — then carves it with an authentic seal-script font. Export is a transparent PNG you can stamp into documents, art, or tattoos.
Related to Flint: 4 share a character with 福澜; the rest sound close to it in Mandarin.
SealsCrafter (sealscrafter.com) is a free Chinese name seal generator: it transliterates your English name into a real Chinese name — characters chosen for sound and meaning — then carves it as an authentic seal (印章) in genuine seal script. You export a transparent PNG instantly: no sign-up, no watermark, no cost. The carving uses the Zhongshan King (中山王) bronze-inscription seal script, supplemented by the Academia Sinica Chongxi Small Seal (崇羲篆體) for characters the main font lacks.
A personal stamp — classically a small stone engraved with your name in seal script and pressed in red cinnabar ink — used in China, Japan and Korea for 3,000 years in place of a signature. Full guide: what is a Chinese name seal.
朱文 (zhūwén) prints the characters in red on paper; 白文 (báiwén) prints them white out of a solid red field. Both are authentic modes of carving — see zhuwen vs baiwen. Both are one click away in the generator above.
Seal (印章) is the carved stone; a chop is the same object called by its Anglo-Indian colonial-era name (from Hindi chhāp, common in Hong Kong and Singapore); a stamp is usually the modern rubber office version. More: seal vs chop vs stamp.
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