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Vietnamese Catholics are given a saint's name at baptism (Vietnamese: tên thánh (holy name) or tên rửa tội (baptism name)). Boys are given male saints' names, while girls are given female saints' names. This name appears first, before the family name, in formal religious contexts. Out of respect, clergy are usually referred to by saints ...
Pages in category "Vietnamese given names" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D. Duy; G. Giai (name) L.
Vietnamese given names (6 P) Vietnamese-language surnames (46 P) Pages in category "Vietnamese names" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
Lan is a personal name, frequently used in Chinese and Vietnamese contexts as a feminine given name, which means "orchid" in Vietnamese. In Vietnamese, "Lân" with the accent denotes a masculine given name, which refers to Kỳ Lân , a mythical creature that appears only to protect the noble.
Vietnamese given names (6 P) Pages in category "Asian given names" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total. This list may not reflect recent ...
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]
The 1954 edition of Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary gave both the unspaced and hyphenated forms; in response to a letter from a reader, the editors indicated that the spaced form Viet Nam was also acceptable, though they stated that because Anglophones did not know the meaning of the two words making up the name Vietnam, "it is not ...
Hà is a Vietnamese given name, male or female, meaning "river". Hà is a Vietnamese 'surname' (during French colonialism). The name is transliterated as He in Chinese and Ha in Korean. Ha is the anglicized variation of the surname Hà. It is also the anglicized variation of Hạ.