• Diss

  • Rant: Don't Butcher Chinese Names Please

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.

                Can these be male names?

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

                Thank you!

                  yaoyueyi oo yeah it does sound like that, i was originally thinking of 海韵 hehe~ Thank you for the help!

                  May I ask what you think of Su Biying then? or Su Yilan?

                  BlueRhapsody I don't know why, but I was thinking of Fan Bingbing and I realized double character names can also work out :joy: thank you for the help~

                        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

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

                                  BlueRhapsody There’s a Bing Bing in a different story as well c: I think using celebrity names but changing the surname doesn’t do much Bc most people can tell when you’re trying to use a celebrity name, but maybe using 1-2 of the characters would work 🤷‍♀️

                                      Web Novel Novel Ask