qīng huá. Tones: qīng high and flat, huá rising.

清 — clear and pure — honest character; 华 — splendor — brilliance and excellence

Is it a real, usable name?

The pair "华" appears in 456 of 1,142,000 real Chinese names.

Orient Name · 中文名工坊

清华

Qing Hua

qīng huá

clear and pure — honest character · splendor — brilliance and excellence

清澈，清白正直 · 华美，光彩夺目

83.8Name score

金Elements

Theme: virtue · fortune

What each character carries 逐字小传

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.

清qīng · A

tier A

水澄澈；引申为洁净、明白、清朗。

Clear water — and then anything unmuddied: clean, lucid, distinct.

3 处原典 · 3 部典籍 · 全部可核

清扬自守清浊自取

清扬 A face you can read

有美一人，清扬婉兮。

There is a beautiful person, clear-browed and graceful.

诗经 · 野有蔓草 · our translation

This is the earliest place Chinese uses 清 for a person's appearance: brows clear and open. The word starts as visible cleanliness. 「清扬」写的是眉目之间清秀舒展。汉语最早用「清」写人的样子，就是从这里开始的——清先是看得见的干净。

自守 Not the same as the crowd

举世皆浊我独清，众人皆醉我独醒。

The whole world is muddy and I alone am clear; everyone is drunk and I alone am sober.

楚辞 · 渔父 · our translation

Qu Yuan's line, and the price was exile. In a name this is less about defiance than about not becoming what surrounds you. 屈原的话，代价是被放逐。名字取这一层时，取的往往不是对抗，而是不肯同流的那点自持。

清浊自取 You decide which

清斯濯缨，浊斯濯足矣，自取之也。

If the water is clear, wash your hat-ribbon; if it is muddy, wash your feet — the water brings it on itself.

孟子 · 離婁上 · our translation

Clear water washes a hat-ribbon; muddy water washes feet. How others use you follows from what you are. 孟子引孔子的话：清水洗帽缨，浊水洗脚，别人怎么用你，取决于你是什么水。名字里的「清」，这一层最硬。

清扬清泉清风清和清越清川清远清言

In a name

Not coldness: transparency — you can see the bottom.

「清」不是冷，是透亮——看得出底。

华huá · A

tier A

花；引申为光华、华美、华夏。

Flower — and then lustre, splendour, and the Chinese world itself (华夏).

3 处原典 · 2 部典籍 · 全部可核

灼灼其华皇皇者华华采

灼灼其华 In full flower

桃之夭夭，灼灼其华。

The peach tree, young and full of life — how brilliantly its flowers burn.

诗经 · 桃夭 · our translation

A wedding song. 灼灼 is the brightness of blossom; a name takes this sense most often — the moment of full bloom. 《桃夭》是嫁女之歌。「灼灼」是花开得亮；名字用「华」，最常取的就是这一层：正在盛开的时候。

皇皇者华 Lustre that travels

皇皇者华，于彼原隰。

Bright, bright are the flowers, out on the plains and lowlands.

诗经 · 皇皇者华 · our translation

A poem of envoys on the road: lustre spread across open country. Here 华 is light, not blossom. 这是使臣出行的诗：光华照在原野上。「华」在这里不只是花，是照出去的光。

华采 Dressed for something sacred

浴兰汤兮沐芳，华采衣兮若英。

Bathed in orchid water, perfumed — dressed in brilliant robes like a flower.

楚辞 · 云中君 · our translation

From the hymn to the cloud god: bathing, then robes of brilliant colour. 华采 is ritual weight, not decoration. 《云中君》祭云神，先沐浴再着华彩之衣。「华采」是仪式的分量，不是装饰。

华彩春华光华建华华清华章明华

In a name

Blossom and lustre: something is growing, and it shows.

「华」是盛开与光华——有东西正在长出来，而且看得见。

引文校验：6/6 条在语料库中逐字命中（论语 · 孟子 · 大学 · 中庸 · 诗经 · 楚辞 · 全唐诗）。没有可靠原典的字，我们宁可写「没有」。

How it sounds 怎么念

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.

qīngT1 · huáT2

Tonesqīng high and flat, huá rising

If you don't speak Chinese

Every syllable has a close English equivalent — nothing here is hard to say.

Is it a real name? 有多真

We checked it against a corpus of 1,142,000 real Chinese names — this is not a combination invented for the page.

The pair 「华」 appears in 456 real names

The corpus describes how many people are actually called this. It is never used to judge whether a name is good.

How this score is built 评分怎么来的

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.

Meaning & imagery19.9/30

Sound22.9/25

Naturalness20.0/20

Name + surname11.0/15

Writing10.0/10

How people will actually call you 别人会怎么叫你

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.

清华Full name. Documents, a first introduction, anyone who is not yet a friend.

小清 / 老清Surname with a size prefix — 小 (little) for someone younger or junior, 老 (old) for a colleague who is senior. This is how a Chinese office usually separates two people with the same surname.

清哥 / 清姐Surname + ‘brother’/‘sister’. Warm without being intimate — a shopkeeper, a neighbour, or a colleague a few years older than you.

华Given name on its own. Family and close friends. An elder using just this is affectionate, not curt.

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.

FAQ 常见问题

How do I say 清华?: qīng huá. Tones: qīng high and flat, huá rising.
What does it mean?: 清 — clear and pure — honest character; 华 — splendor — brilliance and excellence
Is it a real, usable name?: The pair "华" appears in 456 of 1,142,000 real Chinese names.

Read together

Only clear water holds the light: clarity first, lustre after.

水干净了才照得出光——清是因，华是果。

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