About the name Willow
The tree of farewell — travelers broke a willow branch (折柳) because 柳 sounds like 留, stay. The beauty of classical poetry and the ache of the road, in one slender character.
Willow in Chinese: 柳
In Chinese, Willow is written 柳 and read liǔ. The weeping willow → 柳(the tree itself).
Not the person but the word? 柳 (liǔ) is the tree — in Chinese poetry the willow is the tree of parting.
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柳, character by character
- 柳liǔ
- Willow: the farewell tree — 折柳, a branch broken for the traveller.
The character itself: From 木 beside 卯, the tree of the fourth earthly branch, spring and the woodpecker. 柳 is the willow, and it is the word for leaving: 柳 and 留 are one character in a thousand years of parting songs — a branch broken at the gate was the farewell. Full 柳 page →
The branch that says come back.
Willow in Chinese: questions
How do you write Willow in Chinese characters?
Willow is written 柳 in Mandarin. The characters are chosen to carry the sound and the sense of Willow 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.
What does the Chinese name 柳 mean?
柳 breaks down as 柳 (liǔ) — Willow: the farewell tree — 折柳, a branch broken for the traveller. The seal note we would put under it: The branch that says come back.
How is 柳 pronounced?
Pinyin: liǔ — 柳 is tone 3 (a dip down and back up). 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.
How does 柳 compare with the other Chinese names here?
柳 is built from 柳 — 柳 (liǔ) — and no other curated name on this site shares that combination, because each entry is built around its own sound and its own meaning rather than recycled syllables. Names that start the same way as Willow are linked at the foot of this page.
What is the story behind the name Willow?
The tree of farewell — travelers broke a willow branch (折柳) because 柳 sounds like 留, stay. The beauty of classical poetry and the ache of the road, in one slender character. The full account — the etymology, the bearers, and why this site renders it as 柳 — is in the section above.
What is a Chinese name seal?
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.
Names related to Willow
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What is SealsCrafter?
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.
What is a Chinese name seal?
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.
What is the difference between 朱文 and 白文?
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.
Is it a seal, a chop or a stamp?
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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What font does it use?
The Zhongshan King seal script (中山王篆), a Warring-States bronze-inscription style, released under the SIL Open Font License.
Can I use the PNG commercially?
The seal design is yours to use. The font is OFL-licensed; exporting the image is fine for any personal or commercial use.