Not a dictionary entry: what the character has meant in Chinese names, with the original line it comes from. Every quotation below is matched character-for-character against a versioned corpus shipped with this site. Where a page names a character's origin, that line is our own paraphrase of the standard dictionaries — it is not a quotation, and it carries no book title for that reason.
怀瑾握瑜兮,穷不知所示。
I carry jade in my breast and hold it in my hand; in my poverty I do not know how to show it.
Texture rather than shine: what you are actually holding, not how it looks to others.
「瑜」是质地,不是光——它说的是你手里有什么,不是别人怎么看。
A Chinese name is not two decorative symbols. For every character: what it means, which of the five elements it belongs to, how many strokes it takes to write, and how often it actually appears in 1,142,000 real Chinese names.
Mandarin is tonal: the same letters said on a different pitch are a different word. The line below is the pitch you actually travel while saying the name.
We checked it against a corpus of 1,142,000 real Chinese names — this is not a combination invented for the page.
Five dimensions, each scored independently. Every bar below is a real computed value — the same rule set that generated the candidate list, not a separate "premium" model.
A Chinese name is almost never used in full. In daily life it gets a prefix, a suffix, or is cut to the given name alone — and which one you get tells you how close the person thinks they are to you.
Patterns, not rules: what you are called depends on your age, the relationship, and the region. In the south you will also hear 阿 + given name between friends.
Elegant and admirable · fine jade — taken as one scene rather than three separate definitions.
Ten layouts, one set of facts — the name, how it is pronounced, what each character means, the score and the five elements. Pick a style, then save it at full size. Real type, not an image model: the name can never be misspelt.

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