Wednesday, July 25, 2007

The Boys' Chinese Names



We were at popo/gong-gong's house yesterday to celebrate Ryan's birthday and mama took the opportunity to ask popo how to write the boys' names in chinese. Mama had asked many times before but the paper always seemed to get lost, so this time round, mama will post as a blog to make sure the names are kept somewhere.




The top name is that of Ryan Yuen Zhen-Lin with the word 'Zhen' meaning 'politics' or 'political affairs' and 'Lin' meaning 'continuous heavy rain' or 'aplenty'.
The bottom name is that of Jaden Yuen Zhen Han and the word 'Han' means 'writing' or 'scholar'.
So in essence, Ryan's chinese name means abundant health, wealth and water to flow in his life while Jaden's chinese name means scholarly or studious person.
Below pix taken back in condo with his presents:



5 comments:

etceteramommy said...

Nice name! Very meaningful. Who picked the names?

Can see a happy face there with all the pressies :D

Krystal said...

Haha...definitely not papa or mama. It's popo, who's chinese educated.

Jason said...
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Jason said...

Off topic but Jaden is so cute in the shot :)

Sasha Tan said...

hey...my son's name is also Jayden, similar to yr sons Jaden!