xuě méi. Tones: xuě dips then rises, méi rising.

雪 — snow — purity and clarity; 梅 — plum blossom — resilience in winter

Is it a real, usable name?

The pair "梅" appears in 365 of 1,142,000 real Chinese names.

Orient Name · 中文名工坊

雪梅

Xue Mei

xuě méi

snow — purity and clarity · plum blossom — resilience in winter

白雪，纯洁无瑕 · 梅花，傲雪凌霜

92.8Name score

水Elements

Theme: nature · strength

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.

雪xuě · B

tier B

雪。

Snow.

1 处原典 · 1 部典籍 · 全部可核

雨雪霏霏

雨雪霏霏 Snow coming down

今我来思，雨雪霏霏。

Now I return — and the snow is falling thick.

诗经 · 采薇 · our translation

No figure of speech here: snow is snow. A name takes the whiteness and the cold. 戍卒归途上的雪。这里没有比喻，「雪」就是雪——名字用「雪」，最早取的就是这个白与冷。

白雪飞雪雪之雪晴映雪

In a name

Snow, without needing to mean something else.

「雪」就是雪，不必是比喻。

梅méi · B

tier B

梅树；梅花。

The plum tree — the fruit tree first, the blossom after.

1 处原典 · 1 部典籍 · 全部可核

侯栗侯梅

侯栗侯梅 A good tree among good trees

山有嘉卉，侯栗侯梅。

On the hill are fine plants: the chestnut, and the plum.

诗经 · 四月 · our translation

The plum stands beside the chestnut as a fine tree. A name takes the tree before the blossom. 《四月》把梅和栗并列，说它们都是山中的好树。名字取「梅」，先取的是树，不是花。

梅树寒梅梅之雪梅春梅

In a name

The tree before the blossom.

「梅」先是树，才是花。

引文校验：2/2 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.

xuěT3 · méiT2

Tonesxuě dips then rises, méi 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 「梅」 appears in 365 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

Naturalness18.9/20

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.

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

小雪 / 老雪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.

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

梅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 雪梅?: xuě méi. Tones: xuě dips then rises, méi rising.
What does it mean?: 雪 — snow — purity and clarity; 梅 — plum blossom — resilience in winter
Is it a real, usable name?: The pair "梅" appears in 365 of 1,142,000 real Chinese names.

Read together

snow · plum — taken as one scene rather than three separate definitions.

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