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.
返景入深林,复照青苔上。
The low sun enters the deep wood and lights the moss again.
深林人不知,明月来相照。
Deep in the wood, no one knows I am here; the bright moon comes to keep me company.
A grove rather than a single tree: 林 gives the name a place to be, not just an object.
「林」在名字里不是一个字,是一片地方——它让名字有了可以待着的地方感。
知之为知之,不知为不知,是知也。
To know what you know, and to know what you do not know — that is knowledge.
知者不惑,仁者不忧,勇者不惧。
The wise are not perplexed, the humane are not anxious, the brave are not afraid.
知者乐水,仁者乐山。
The wise take pleasure in water; the humane take pleasure in mountains.
Not cleverness: the ability to tell things apart.
「知」在名字里不是「聪明」,是分得清。
日照香炉生紫烟,遥看瀑布挂前川。
Sunlight on Incense Burner Peak raises a purple mist; from far off the waterfall hangs before the river.
遥望洞庭山水翠,白银盘里一青螺。
Gazing far across Dongting, the hills and water are green — a single blue snail on a silver plate.
Scale: stand further back, and you see the whole thing.
「遥」给名字的是尺度:站得远一点,才看得完整。
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.
A wood, a knowing, a distance — you go in, you learn the way, and something is still far ahead.
走进森林,认得来路,远处还有地方。
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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