Chinese name pronunciation and what it means?

5 Comments

1. Rach says:

   August 7, 2009 at 12:42 am

   Without the pinyin tones, even we Chinese cannot tell. Chinese is not really based on writiting; a single pinyin can mean mant different possibilities. Unless you can give us the pinyin, that narrows is down considerably. And there is no romanisation for the Chinese language. The pinyin that you gave, for example, can have over 10 pronunciations. Only the Chinese Characters itself will determine the correct pronunication, unfortunately.
2. Lin Dan says:

   August 7, 2009 at 12:42 am

   Brother,

   You can never romanised Chinese Characters. No one will ever understand. By the clues you provided, I could guess it may be pronounced as Yee Chiun.

   As for what is it exactly, well…. there’s just too many possibilities of Chinese Characters combination.
3. MaCeDonIan PhaLanX says:

   August 7, 2009 at 12:42 am

   Lin Dan you are cute:)
4. ? says:

   August 7, 2009 at 12:42 am

   to translate anything from Chinese you need
   either:
   Chinese characters (100%)
   or
   pronunciation transcription (pinyin) with _tones_ (50%)
   or
   context of the phrase used (20-30% which is actually guessing)

   otherwise it just won’t work
5. dwww says:

   August 7, 2009 at 12:42 am

   the thing with chinese character is, many of them sounds alike. yi for example, (first sound) 一，依，伊，衣，医。 all of them sounds "yi".

   if u combine characters in a word, then we can tell which characters u were talking about, but since yi and jun are in a name, there is no way we can tell which two those are.