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  • Rant: Don't Butcher Chinese Names Please

Hi, can you tell me if I made a mistake in my names please?

Xiao Yu (young boy - MC) (ma recherche xiao = petit/ Yu = poisson)
Mei Ling (young girl)
Shen Ming (young boy)
Mu Yong (old and powerful expert)

I took a long time to choose them, except shen ming
Thank you for your time,

If people passing by have time to advice my 4 chapters:
https://www.webnovel.com/book/12685193006612105

    Lelouch91 oof I don't speak french so I had to google translate lmao
    but xiao yu is average. reminds me of this tv show I used to watch as a kid.
    mei ling is stereotypical name but it works.
    shen ming sounds so so
    mu yong is my favorite.

    they're all fine!

      what about Zai Yunhai?
      It should mean "In the sea of clouds (my wish)" or "At cloud sea".

        DaddyFishGotBigPp when I said that zai was a surname, I meant this å®°, which means to govern, not the zai you're thinking about (åœØ).
        besides, it makes about zero sense if your surname adds onto the meaning of your first name like that. people don't pick their surnames, and if they wanted to match their name to make a pun/meaning, it would be kinda lame.
        yunhai's a decent name though.

            DaddyFishGotBigPp oh dear ofc
            but you know there's another last name that's also xiao and it's much more common than the xiao used for small? it's 萧. so you can prevent these dwarves from taking over? :joy:

                yaoyueyi Foolish human, do you really think you can stop our domination? Earth will soon fall into the hands our digging folk, and the dig-dig songs shall spread thought these lands.

                    Um, I wanna ask help regarding naming a character, if you guys don't mind. More specifically, I need a male name which denotes 'always being on time'. It's going to be used for a character in a novel with a futuristic SciFi theme, so I need something appropriatešŸ™‚ Thanks in advance guys.

                      UnliMegane
                      If its not Chinese, I can help with English names. If you can't find a good name for English ones, just take the latin root words you need and rearrange them to make a new name. It'll either look weird or unique. Otherwise, there's sites online that give name meanings like my personal favorite-https://www.behindthename.com/

                      Edit: I also use this a lot: https://www.fantasynamegenerators.com/

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                          90751052 Lmao, thatā€™s what I do too!

                          But I actually came here with a question for the lovely yaoyueyi ~

                          There was a beautiful Chinese name I heard once, and I donā€™t know how it was spelt, except that it ā€˜soundedā€™ like XiaXue or Xiayue to me. Is there a real name thatā€™s like it/could be it?

                                Chryiss in chinese, there are practically an unlimited number of names because you could combine any characters to make a name, as long as it sounds normal. therefore, xiaxue and xiayue would both be perfectly fine names.

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