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  • Rant: Don't Butcher Chinese Names Please

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.

          • hiop replied to this.

            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! :)

                    MishaK unless your character is an american born chinese or if they have an english name equivalent, then wu lina is okay. otherwise, nah.
                    zhang jia sounds stupid.
                    haobao sounds really really stupid.
                    not the biggest fan of ming chang but oh well. xinyu is the best. nice name.

                      yaoyueyi Did a little research again:

                      How are these names:

                      • Zhang Guan-yin (Zhang being the last name)
                      • Yang Eu-meh
                      • Bo Xilai

                        MishaK guanyin is highkey weird bc that's the name of a buddhist goddess. idk if that's what you're going for but that's just weird.
                        eu meh is not even chinese. I have no idea what language that is... maybe korean??
                        xilai is bearable

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