Chinese Fantasy Name Generator

A Chinese fantasy name keeps real Chinese order, family name first, and gets its flavor from two choices: the surname and the vocabulary of the given name. Ordinary surnames such as Li, Ye, Su and Mo suit heroes, but the genre loves two-character compound surnames, vanishingly rare today and therefore ancient and aristocratic: Murong, Dongfang, Nangong, Ximen, Shangguan, Ouyang, Zhuge, Sima, Duanmu, Huangfu, Xuanyuan. One compound surname in a cast instantly marks a noble clan or a legendary sect lineage.

Given names in wuxia and xianxia draw on a recognisable palette of characters: Qing (clear), Ling (spirit), Xuan (mysterious), Yun (cloud), Xue (snow), Han (cold), Tian (heaven), Wu (nothingness or martial), Zhan (battle), Jian (sword), Yue (moon), Feng (wind), Chen (dawn). Two-character names such as Qingyun, Lingxiao or Hanyue read as elegant and literary; a single-character given name (Mo Ru, Yan Pei, Chu Ci) sounds older and sharper, like a figure from a Tang-dynasty tale. Cultivators and immortals also carry Daoist titles instead of names: Zi (master), Zhenren (perfected one), Daojun (Dao lord), Xianzi (fairy), Laozu (ancestor) and Mojun (demon lord) attach to a two-character epithet such as Taixu or Qingyun.

The list mixes all of these, so one roll can give you a wandering swordsman, a sect matriarch, a demonic cultivator or the old immortal on the mountain.