yǔ xuān. Tones: yǔ dips then rises, xuān high and flat.

雨 — gentle rain — nourishment and grace; 萱 — A flower that symbolizes joy and the forgetting of sorrow.

Is it a real, usable name?

The pair "萱" appears in 147 of 1,142,000 real Chinese names.

Orient Name · 中文名工坊

雨萱

Yu Xuan

yǔ xuān

gentle rain — nourishment and grace · A flower that symbolizes joy and the forgetting of sorrow.

细雨，润物无声 · 萱草忘忧，寓意快乐、宁静与母爱的温暖。

85.1Name score

水 · 木Elements

Theme: nature · natural · classic

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.

雨yǔ · B

tier B

雨水。

Rain — good when it comes at the right time.

1 处原典 · 1 部典籍 · 全部可核

好雨知时节

好雨知时节 Rain that knows when

好雨知时节，当春乃发生。

A good rain knows its season; it comes in spring, when things begin.

全唐诗 · 杜甫《春夜喜雨》 · our translation

The rain is praised for timing, not volume. 杜甫把雨写成「知时节」的——不是下得多，是下得对。名字用「雨」，取的是这个「及时」。

春雨时雨雨之雨时春雨

In a name

Timing, not volume.

「雨」好在及时，不在多。

引文校验：1/1 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」。

Character by character 逐字拆开看

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.

萱 xuan

Element 木 · 13 strokes · leans feminine

A flower that symbolizes joy and the forgetting of sorrow.

萱草忘忧，寓意快乐、宁静与母爱的温暖。

Sourceno sourced citation yet — we would rather say so than invent one

Real namesappears in 502 of 1,142,000 (149 of them as a first/middle character)

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.

yǔT3 · xuānT1

Tonesyǔ dips then rises, xuān high and flat

If you don't speak Chinese

xuān — x is close to English 'sh', with the tongue further forward

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 「萱」 appears in 147 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 & imagery30.0/30

Sound22.9/25

Naturalness12.6/20

Name + surname11.0/15

Writing8.6/10

Writing/recognition scored below full marks.

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.

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

小雨 / 老雨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.

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

萱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 雨萱?: yǔ xuān. Tones: yǔ dips then rises, xuān high and flat.
What does it mean?: 雨 — gentle rain — nourishment and grace; 萱 — A flower that symbolizes joy and the forgetting of sorrow.
Is it a real, usable name?: The pair "萱" appears in 147 of 1,142,000 real Chinese names.

Read together

rain · Daylily; freedom from care — taken as one scene rather than three separate definitions.

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