Senin, 14 September 2009

Chinese baby names – Slipping out of the crowd!


Congratulations for your new baby! Are you still confuse in choosing the best name for your baby? How about injecting some senses of culture and uniqueness into the name? Well, history has proven that cultures, religion, belief, and tradition have played a part of importance on selecting baby names.

One of the most unique culture in the world is owned by the chinese. Chinese baby names usually convey universe elements as the expression of their belief to 4 dominant universe elements.

Moreover, the chinese baby names are very rarely been duplicated. Having one of the most crowded population in the world, every chinese is having their own unique name using characters and the combinations of the them.

In fact, the chinese are familiar with thousands of special characters and use the combination of them to form the name.
Thus, It virtually creates the unlimited number of combinations and there may also be linguistic nuances beyond the scopes.

In western cultures, the baby’s name is taken after their father’s to carry on family tradition. The first name comes first, and the surname (father’s name) comes last. The surname will shadow over the name and reputation of the family throughout the kid’s life.

In chinese tradition, it also keep the surname within the family name, of course. The difference is the way of presenting the surname (or family name). The surname always comes first, followed by the given name. In broaden view, there are only a limited number pf  surnames in china but has a huge diversity of given names.

In Chinese culture, babies are usually bestowed with "false name" to scare away evil spirits. It is common practice that a child will have several names during the lifetime The zodiac places a prominent role in Chinese culture and derives name that pay homage to certain times in the history.

Take a look on the details below. Now you can find several chinese baby names to ease you finding a glimpse of  Chinese cultures and characters in contributing baby names:

For baby boys, the names usually have characters that reflect strength, power, and endurance, like: Bai, Yaochuan, Chen, Honghui, Cheng, Chao, Ho, Jianyu, Liang, Qingsheng, Kong, Jinhai, Shen, Shan, Longwei, and Zhengzhong.

For baby girls, the Chinese names are usually associated to beauty, flowers, nature, and gem. The names like Wencheng, Feng, Yanlin, Xia, Chunhua, Jiao, Cuifen, Lian,  Meilin, Shuang, Mingyu are very popular in China.

Parents, If you are thinking of giving your baby the Chinese baby names, congratulations! You are about to give a name that might never have duplicates in the world.
Learning  the chinese culture and belief will ease you to find clues in searching best name for the baby. Playing with the character combinations and pouring some essential elements into the name will help you to find baby names that sound perfect for you. Good luck!

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