{"id":18555,"date":"2013-03-17T21:00:59","date_gmt":"2013-03-17T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/?p=18555"},"modified":"2017-02-25T12:44:44","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T04:44:44","slug":"baby-names-chinese-version-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chekyang.com\/musings\/2013\/03\/17\/baby-names-chinese-version-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Names \u2013 Chinese Version – Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

If there’s one thing that Chinese-teacher parents can help that many other parents can’t, it’s in helping think of Chinese names for new-borns! Can’t believe that it’s been almost exactly four years ago when we had this same exercise for Hannah, blogged here<\/a>. We’re still undecided about the baby’s Christian name (I have one that I really like but Ling’s still undecided LOL), but parents have their list ready.<\/p>\n

\"blog-baby-name\"<\/p>\n

Of the list of eight possibilities, our two favorites were:<\/p>\n

Foo Jie \u2018q\u00edn\u2019 \u2013 \u7b26\u6770\u52e4 \u2013 diligence<\/p>\n

Foo Jie \u2018x\u016bn\u2019 \u2013 \u7b26\u6770\u52cb \u2013 meritorious<\/p>\n

My instinctive preference was the latter though on account of how it sounds when spoken, and also that his name would be similar to Hannah’s. Hannah’s name in Chinese is Foo Jiex\u012bn \u2013 \u7b26\u5a55\u6615 (“dawn and the rising sun”); so her brother could be Foo Jiex\u016bn. ‘x\u012bn’ and ‘x\u016bn’. Ling likes it too so looks like this will be what we’ll go with- unless we get other ideas later! :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If there’s one thing that Chinese-teacher parents can help that many other parents can’t, it’s in helping think of Chinese names for new-borns! Can’t believe that it’s been almost exactly four years ago when we had this same exercise for<\/p>\n

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