Meaning of Names

[jedamum]

ks2me:

..English and Chinese name sounds exactly the same.

:rahrah: me! me!
maybe my husband is the trendsetter... names like his (ie english and chinese name sounds the same) is very rare during his times.

[ChiefKiasu]

jedamum:

ks2me:

..English and Chinese name sounds exactly the same.

:rahrah: me! me!
maybe my husband is the trendsetter... names like his (ie english and chinese name sounds the same) is very rare during his times.

Both my kids have Chinese names that follow their English names too. Maybe it's more common than we thought

[shuting28]

[quote]hahaha...even i get it wrong! my boy's berries' teacher and chinese teacher also get it wrong![/quote]
No worries..... the teachers in my kids school n most relatives also got the stokes wrong! :shock: Its better to correct then never know

[MLR]

DS chinese name is only single character. Its only bcos S'pore birth cert can only accommodate 4 chinese characters and DH 1st name after converting to chinese takes up 3, so....


I even tried to take only the 1st character of DH's family name, but they said CANNOT, DH actually said to put my surname, they also say CANNOT, so we ended up just choosing a single character. Initally DH wanted to give him an African name bcos of his ancestry, but my thinking was that it would be quite a mouthful and don't want DS to be teased at. Cos the one African name we both agreed on sounded quite like common bad words in Hokkien

Both DS's christian name and chinese name are one of those unisex names.

[clarabella]

thebusybee:

Hi all!


Ha! 睿 is indeed a popular name now.

I think it's a very popular name with fengshui masters! Many of my friends and relatives are using this word for their kids, and without fail they obtained it from their masters. Not just from Singapore... even some who consulted shi-fus from Taiwan were given this word.

[jedamum]

clarabella:

I think it's a very popular name with fengshui masters! .

and i didn't even pay a cent to engage any fengshui masters :rahrah: ! I only consulted the dictionary....

[buds]

I have came across many students with that unique \"R\"..

[clarabella]

jedamum:

and i didn't even pay a cent to engage any fengshui masters :rahrah: ! I only consulted the dictionary....

Hi jedamaster
Considering that people pay good $$ to fengshui masters... you are good! Very 'in' word!

A friend of mine opened the dictionary to the 'z' section and ended up with this: 臻. Her kid hated writing it!

[corneyAmber]

jedamum:

clarabella:

I think it's a very popular name with fengshui masters! .

and i didn't even pay a cent to engage any fengshui masters :rahrah: ! I only consulted the dictionary....

:celebrate: We also never spent a single cent on fengshui master because our focus was in simplicity of writing the name and the 3 characters had to look balanced. I grew up with very unbalanced number of strokes in my Chinese name...it looked awkward writing them as a kid.

I happen to see a list of names in an enrichment class...and ironically most of the parents from that enrichment centre, the parents cannot speak a word of Mandarin but all their kids' names are very complicated Chinese characters. The other interesting point is there are many of these SAME complicated characters in many of the names.

Then a friend commented that it is the work of the fengshui masters...most of these complicated and duplicated names are from the fengshui masters. :shock:

[clarabella]

ks2me:

Then a friend commented that it is the work of the fengshui masters...most of these complicated and duplicated names are from the fengshui masters. :shock:

Ah, that's what a teacher friend commented too! Many of the kan-tan (potato) kids in her class had Chinese names that were so impossibly complicated that there's no way the kan-tan parents thought them up. In fact, some of the parents couldn't even write them!

Heard a funny story from a young friend who went to Nanyang Kindergarten. For an entire month she had no idea the teachers were referring to her when they called a particular name. Reason: her parents had NEVER told her what her Chinese name is. She didn't even realize she had a 'different' name!