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BlueRhapsody Thank you very much! Syaoran was a name I found on a Chinese baby names website and now I'm super scared about everything ahahaha.

As far as my MC's name I have two questions about it:
1. Is it 'okay' to retain it as it is or is it disrespectful in any way? I currently have a few people following the novel and I'm afraid if I change it now things are gonna get weird for my readers.
2. If it's not okay, do you have any recommendations of what I could use instead? I'm really sorry to bother you!

chonnie
I honestly doubt that most people reading will know since (I assume) most people aren't ethnically Chinese, so it's not the end of the world and you don't necessarily have to change it. As for the Syaoran thing, if we're talking Mandarin, that's not a thing. IDK about Cantonese and Taiwan/Hong Kong spellings.

chonnie
If you want name suggestions, I suggest that you clarify what kind of meaning you want their name to have.

chonnie "syao" is probably some american going "how do I say 'xiao'.... oh right syao"... so if you want to have an alternative, xiaoran is a good alternative.
ughhh ying yue :sob: you have no idea how much I hate that.
but tian yao is kinda weird.
li qiang isn't my favorite.
huang kang is atrocious.
I don't get why Change is one name when you have everything else in two characters. it should be Tian Chan Ge if you want to follow the other things but change is just a weird name overall bc how it looks in english.

BlueRhapsody yaoyueyi

Thank you to you both! I'm gonna go ahead and adjust the names of my characters now. I'm grateful that you guys decided to help out :))

Hello! I would like some help with Chinese names too! Thank you.

Female:

Yuxin
Yanfei
Meihua
Mo Chunying
Liu Mudan
Jiang Yingyue
Bai Biqi
Dong Biyu
Li Qinghe
Jun Lingzhu

Male:

Hongyue
Yangguang
Anguo
Shanyi
Li Jiafeng
Qu Xiubo
Dou Luyi
Wang Xuwen
Lin Yuan
Lu Feng

dusty_angel
no to female names: yuxin, meihua (purely bc it's overused but if you wanna use an overused name... I have nothing to say), yingyue, qinghe,
no to male names: hongyue, yangguang (pls no this one is so bad that I'm going to cry), anguo, shanyi, lin yuan.

yaoyueyi Okay, thanks for your time! I hope you have a nice day!

Can these be male names?

Wei Xian He
Wei Song Xian
Wei Lan Xian
Wei Xian Ming

Thank you!

Xiao_yue I don't really like any of these tbh........

Xincerely biying is a little so-so. I like yilan tho

yaoyueyi Yi Lan... Do you know of NatsumeRikka's Yi Lan? She's pretty awesome~

yaoyueyi Oh a story on here that I discovered through a review swap and am following. :P Not sure if it's your cup of tea, but I'll recommend it anyway~ The title recently got changed from When did I get married?! --> here

Only reason why I mention it is because you said you liked the name, so I wondered what the meaning of Yi Lan is and if this character followed that.

Chryiss oh oof I just looked at the synopsis & a character of an unpublished work of mine is named yi meng T_T

Xincerely
Welp I have a friend who’s name is bing bing

Suggestion: Maybe use famous Chinese names except change around the surnames.