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  • Rant: Don't Butcher Chinese Names Please

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
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It has name that is literally the date of birth
Man with female name
Name that only has last name
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    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.

                      This Tiny Fish brings a question to you, Revered Gramps:
                      Have you any better names than Xiao Lang (Little Wolf) to recommend?
                      Specifically, for a female child whose's a glutton.
                      This Tiny Fish is filled with gratitude (-ω-)ゝ

                        yaoyueyi Please help me YaoYueyi. Do these names sound okay?
                        - Yang Xinyu
                        - Wu Lina (Lina is not a Chinese name. But does it look okay with that last name? Do mixed names exist in Chinese culture?)
                        - Zhang Jia
                        - Yang Ming-Chang
                        - Yang Haobao

                        Please don't laugh! :)

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