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Choosing a chinese name


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I've been asked by my mandarin teacher to choose a chinese name until next class, and I was thinking about either 耿霓晓 or 阴霓晓. Does it seem like a "real" chinese name, or do you have better suggestion? I'm a girl btw.

 

(if I've posted this in the wrong category I'm super sorry)

 

/Elin

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阴's a pretty uncommon surname, and as Skylee says, I'm not sure why you'd specifically want to choose it. It could make people think of 阴天 (gloomy, overcast days) or worse, 阴部 (genitals, and a good number of related words for things in that area use the same character). 耿霓晓 looks fine, in fact it looks like a nice name (to my untrained eye).

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I am a native chinese speaker.  晓 was quite commonly used as a middle character in names of 70s, not so common now. From my personal experience, many such names was originally has  小 in the middle, when the children start school, they think 小 is not suitable for a proper name and change it to 晓。There is nothing wrong to have 晓 as the last character and it sounds good in this name 耿霓晓。

 

To choose 阴 as surname is quite strange to me, I do not know any person have 阴 as surname yet.

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