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  • Rant: Don't Butcher Chinese Names Please

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!

                              Paper_Crane 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.

                                  NihilisticBeauty well, I don't study last names so I don't know their meanings. I generally know more over first names. all I know about that xu is that it's one of the most common last names, so yep.

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                                      yaoyueyi It's a bit late to reply to the thread but what about my MC: Ye Yuyan.

                                          16 days later

                                          Ahhhhh. Thank you for writing this! Have you seen The Other Side of A Cultivation Novel? 😦 The main character’s name is Shu QAI. And he gets called Qai.... that’s not even a word/character. I left a rant about it on chapter 3 it’s the most upvoted lol.

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