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Q: A question for the Chinese people on this site, concerning Chinese names
What's the logic behind some of the Chinese names I've seen? I know a Chinese girl with the word "man" 男 in her name. And what's the logic behind the singer's name 容祖儿? Her name literally means "son of the ancestors." Did the parents just hope for a boy when they chose the name and didn't bother to change it when they realized they had a girl?
Has anyone else seen some confusing Chinese names?
yeah i saw a taxi driver with the name 原九四 , yuan is a fairly common family name, but why the hell did they name their kid 94??? I asked a few people, if it had any meaning I was unaware of and nope, just a messed up name.
Huaxiaesl:
Maybe he was born in the year 1994 or the date September 4th. We do have some weird names.
I guess the Chinese girl with the word 男 in her name maybe called 如男 or 胜男. That means the same as or better than man. For the singer 容祖儿, I searched on baidu and found that her grandma hoped to have a grandson after her. That's how the name comes. Some girls with name 弟 means the same. BTW, in traditional Chinese, 儿 means both son and daughter.
