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yaoyueyi

Thank you for this post. May you check on mine too?

Ye Ai Ning.

Surname is Ye. If I remember correct it mean 'leaf' but can it just be a surname? The name is Ai Ning which mean love and person of peace. Now I don't know if I could just mix this two.

Jiang Liu

Jiang is the surname which mean 'river'. Now I do know that the name Liu means 'willow' but I wonder if I could use 'precious stone' which is written in a different character as the translation instead. I search around but I saw them using that character on places or things.

      Xiao_yue yes, ye is the surname. I'm personally not a fan of ai ning but it's not too bad.
      jiang liu makes me think of a flowing river so it's kind of weird but okay

          Can you check these names please?
          Su Song
          Su Ouyang
          Tang Li
          Tang Huan

            Gloomy4_669 su song sounds kinda stupid
            ouyang is generally a surname so you're having two surnames in a row
            tang li is okay
            tang huan is not as good as tang li but decent

                In Brazil, strange names appear, such as Isadora pinto de Jesus, which can be understood Isa likes Jesus' penis, so when I see a weird name in Chinese I do not think it strange
                Kkkk
                It has name that is literally the date of birth
                Man with female name
                Name that only has last name
                Kkkkk

                  yaoyueyi ngl i read tang huan as 汤换... reminds me of the idiom 换汤不换药. Might just be me with my bad Chinese tho lmao

                      icyhail haha I thought it sounded awkward too but it was considerably better than some of the other names they had so... :')

                          yaoyueyi do you mind suggesting a name suited for girl that means aloof or something near it?

                              6 days later

                              yaoyueyi At these times, I'm glad my mother put me through at least a bit of chinese when I was younger....
                              lol, huzi. Who did that?

                                  yaoyueyi Hi, can you help me with my character's name? I'm born Chinese, first language is Chinese, but my language skills are just plain terrible. I don't have much confidence in naming.

                                  The MCs:
                                  Yuan Ji
                                  湲/園
                                  (Hope)冀

                                  Yang YueChen
                                  (To raise/hoist/flutter) 揚
                                  (Music/cheerful and Earth/Dust) 樂塵

                                  Other names:
                                  Zhi He 紙鶴
                                  Yao Feng
                                  Gui Zheng 鬼整

                                  And if you could, please translate this:
                                  Paper Crane Fleeting Amidst The Storm.

                                  Many thanks!

                                      X_I_O not a fan of gui zheng. idk what zhi he is for but that's not a proper name most likely... don't name your kids paper crane lmao
                                      also you're using traditional chinese here. I only know simplified so can't help you much there.

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