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The name Kai / ˈ k aɪ / has various origins and meanings in different cultures: In Estonian, Kai is a female name derived from Katherine. In Persian, Kai, or Kay, is a male name, meaning "king". It is also the name of a mythological shah (king) in the Shahnameh. In Japanese, kai has a number of meanings, including "ocean" (海), "shell" (貝 ...
Chinese surnames have a history of over 3,000 years. Chinese mythology, however, reaches back further to the legendary figure Fuxi (with the surname Feng), who was said to have established the system of Chinese surnames to distinguish different families and prevent marriage of people with the same family names. [8]
The Chinese expression "Three Zhang Four Li" (simplified Chinese: 张三李四; traditional Chinese: 張三李四; pinyin: Zhāng Sān Lǐ Sì) is used to mean "anyone" or "everyone", [4] but the most common surnames are currently Wang in mainland China [5] and Chen in Taiwan. [6]
When choosing a Chinese baby girl name, take into consideration family connections, any special significance the name has to you, and of course the meaning behind the name. Here are 110 from which ...
Courtesy names were often relative to the meaning of the person's given name, the relationship could be synonyms, relative affairs, or rarely but sometimes antonym. For example, Chiang Kai-shek's given name (中正, romanized as Chung-cheng) and courtesy name (介石, romanized as Kai-shek) are both from the yù (豫) hexagram 16 of I Ching. [4 ...
Cài (Chinese: 蔡) is a Chinese-language surname that derives from the name of the ancient Cai state.In 2019 it was the 38th most common surname in China, [1] but the 9th most common in Taiwan (as of 2018), where it is usually romanized as "Tsai" (based on Wade-Giles romanization of Standard Mandarin [2]), "Tsay", or "Chai" and the 8th most common in Singapore, where it is usually romanized ...
Tian Jun (rower) (born 1982), Chinese male rower; Tian Kai (died 199), Chinese official in Qing Province during the Chinese Tang dynasty; Tian Kehan, honorific name used to refer to various Chinese leaders; Tian Liang (rower) (born 1986), Chinese female Olympic rower; Tian Liang (born 1979), Chinese male diver and two-time Olympic champion
Kai stingaree (Urolophus kaianus), a species of stingray in the family Urolophidae; Kai, a cultivar of Karuka; Kai, in Māori cuisine and New Zealand cooking, a term widely used to refer to food; Kai, short for Kai Ken, a Japanese dog breed named after the Kai Province; Kai, the main protagonist in the upcoming anime series Tokyo Override