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  • Rant: Don't Butcher Chinese Names Please

yaoyueyi omg, I don't know why those names sound so pretty for me, thanks! I feel enlightened now 😁😁😁

MishaK no to sang ni (sang li would be better).
chun qian is good.
do you mean Jie Fenghua? or Hua Jiefeng? can't tell.

    Just read a novel and three of the characters where Yun Yi, Yun Yin, and Yun Ying.

      Just read a novel and three of the characters where Yun Yi, Yun Yin, and Yun Ying.

        Velixar they're nice names by themselves but all together would be a poor decision made by the author :')

          yaoyueyi that’s Hua Jiefeng. But is it ok to write the name as Jiefeng Hua?

            Hello! I was roaming around the forum and found your post. I'm not currently working on a novel, but I have been doing a bit of research on Chinese names since I found it interesting. I found that some Chinese authors name their characters from lines in poetry.

            I was wondering if you can answer a question of mine about two character given names. Does it matter how you write it in English? I found how some names are written together and sometimes separately. Is there a reason for this? Is it a middle name when written separately? For example, my username Bai Qiuyue. 秋 for autumn and 月 for moon. From what I looked up it is written as Qiuyue, but can it be written as Qiu Yue, with Bai still as the surname?

              BaiQiuyue yes, depending on the style of the person who's writing/translating, they can choose to separate them or not. accurately, in chinese pinyin (which is the alphabetic way of spelling out chinese characters), the letters would be separated, so separating would be the most correct if you want to get technical. however, I personally prefer to keep the first name put together into one word because that's easier to read for non-chinese speaking individuals.

              but either way, both of them make bai (in your example) the surname. it's just a stylistic choice and doesn't impact the actual contents of the name very much!

                yaoyueyi I see! So the correct way is to separate the two character given names, but either way it doesn't change the structure or meaning. Thank you for clarifying that for me! :)

                I actually like when it's written separated. I think it has a nice presence that way. I just wasn't sure if it changed anything. :p

                I'm sorry for asking again, what do you think about 明善?

                  Great Expert, can you check this one for This Fish?
                  Wind Great Night; Feng Daye/Feng Da Ye.

                  The literal translation "Wind Big Night" seems kinda bad in This Fish opinion.

                    yaoyueyi
                    Eh, This Fish thought the same, it sounds kinda bad.
                    Still, Could you suggest some names for a Wind User?
                    Any gender works, I can make it do somehow.

                      Hi! I'm here again to ask for your advice 😊

                      Is the name Lu Qiang okay? Or should I go with Lu Qian? 😊

                        So um, these are mine. I hope some of them work so I don't have to change much in my novel but nothing's ever perfect. Also, can you suggest me a name for a guy who uses super strong ice abilities? Just like his temperament; he is cold, ruthless, and definitely heartless. But not the main character of course. Sorry for taking your time.
                        Bai Li [MC-]
                        Da Yuan
                        Fan Tong
                        Jia Yan
                        Ju Dun
                        Khu Bei
                        Mo Tian
                        Shi Qigang
                        Wei Tao
                        Yue Su
                        Yue Yong
                        Zhao Fei
                        Zhao Kufei

                          yaoyueyi
                          This Fish thinks he can make it do.
                          Also, are these good?
                          Wind Little Night (Feng Xiaoye)
                          Jade Little Wind (Yu Xiao Feng)
                          Don't mind the Xiao's, they just sound nice and This Fish can't think of anything to replace them.

                            BeyondBreaking

                            okay: bai li, da yuan, fan tong, jia yan, mo tian, shi qigang, wei tao, yue su, zhao fei, yue yong
                            not okay: ju dun, khu bei, zhao kufei

                            suggestion: Mo Bingxi 慕冰熙 or Leng Chenyu 冷尘宇

                              DaddyFishGotBigPp xiao just makes me think of a kid. people generally don't use them in names unless they're nicknames because people can outgrow them. unless you're talking about really short people... that might work.

                                My story is set in modern day Chengdu. Hence,most of the characters are Chinese. Their names are: Gu Ren(male) ,Wang Xiu(female), Zhang Wei(male), Liu Ren(male), Li Wei(male).Please tell me whether these names make sense as all mandarin I know is by watching CN dramas. A little help will be appreciated,

                                  I'm sorry to bother again, but I was wondering what you would think of these names? And if you don't mind, which one seems to be the best out of these? Thank you so much in advance :heart:

                                  Potential names for a male lead in a new book:
                                  Yang Yuhan
                                  Lu Yuehao
                                  Wang Tianmin
                                  Hu Tianluo
                                  Wang Lutian
                                  Zheng Minyue

                                  Already a name for male lead in my current book, but still curious about it lol:
                                  Wen Jinkai

                                    Xincerely no to tianmin and tianluo. tianluo makes me think of田螺 aka river snail. minyue makes me think of 民乐 aka folk music so no to that either. it also looks really feminine.

                                    out of that list, my favorite is yuhan. solds like cold jade which is really poetic.

                                    jinkai... I don't know how I feel about that honestly LMAO

                                      yaoyueyi omg now that you mention it, tianluo does make me think of that too LMAOO XD

                                      will definitely use yuhan then, thank you so much~

                                      (if you don't mind me asking, but what's wrong with jinkai? o.o)

                                        I'm bad with chinese names. Could anyone give me a really manly name? I'm trying to make an unfortunate female Chinese character who got a guy name cause her parents really wanted a son. >3</

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