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[hoyotunes]

Befall from Impact 尚雯婕, Eyn, Zoe, JODODO, HOYO-MiX

[shang-wenjie]

oh.. zhu dan's weibo is absolutely FULL of pics of her with wenjie..

[deankarolina]

[just1dumbb-tch]

Laure Shang- Chandelier (Sia cover)

[zhongyeqing]

口袋台股詐騙，趙雯婕詐騙，潘香玲詐騙，張智源詐騙，中籤詐騙，老頑童不倒翁詐騙

平台：口袋台股 老師：老頑童不倒翁 助理：趙雯婕 暗樁：潘香玲、張智源

口袋台股是詐騙，老師老頑童不倒翁，助理趙雯婕，這個詐騙集團上個月千尋就已經分享過案例了，現在還在行騙中，據投稿人稱，他朋友被騙了300多萬，現在無法出金， 出金還要繳納其他費用，典型的詐騙，這個詐騙集團現在應該是第一次收割中，希望千尋的分享可以及時挽救更多人。

金融交易投資，只要宣稱高獲利，絕對都有鬼，套句業內常說的，真那麼好賺，把家裡值錢的全都賣了，也要來拚，那還需要留給你們去賺。 社交平台、交友軟體出現的帥哥美女，98%都是詐騙，他們會跟你培養感情，帶入投資教你入金，再教你轉帳去他們的「平台」，一旦錢進去就出不來了，提醒大家別輕易受騙 如果能隨隨便便就能賺幾百萬上千萬的好事，你換個角度想，為何他們要不斷在網路上積極找人加入？甚至你就是那個幸運兒？為何他們沒有實際公司地址和電話，只能透過隱匿性極佳的line來溝通聯繫？？因為按常理邏輯來說，根本沒有這種事的，如果有絕對是投資詐騙或非法方式，前者不用講就是要騙你加入，後續用一些假象引導你已經獲利很多，要趕快付出部分費用才能提領獲利，後者更不可能會大張旗鼓在網路上找人。請理智思考，謹慎為之。 千尋總結假投資詐騙手法： 1、詐團會利用FB、IG、YT、Google及簡訊等管道投放假投資廣告，或在交友軟體App假交友，宣稱保證獲利���穩賺不賠且利潤豐厚來吸引被害人。 2、當受害人上鉤後，詐團會介紹其他「客服、老師、助理」同夥加 LINE 聯繫或加入LINE投資群組，並提供假投資網站給被害人註冊，此時LINE群組內不斷有其他假學員獲利貼文。 3、自稱「客服、老師、助理」的詐團會提供 銀行帳號 給被害人入金投資。 4、初期帳面顯示獲利（詐團於後臺控制），引誘受害人加碼投入大筆資金，有時可出金微薄獲利，但出金款項其實是其他被害人匯款的，可能會導致您銀行帳戶被警示。 5、當受害人要提領獲利時，以各種理由拖延（需繳保證金、IP異常等）或是直接凍結帳號、失去聯繫，就是「不出金」。 如遇通訊軟體或網路平台標榜低風險高獲利等投資話術，一定要謹記「保持冷靜」，務必反覆查詢確認，多一分警惕、少一分損失。 

投稿人稱自己被詐騙了900多萬有幸拿回來，他的賴plum_1230，如果有同樣經歷的可以聯絡這位網友詢問看看，都是血汗錢，能拿回來是最後的。

[kdramamilfs]

i was tagged by @lottieurl, ty <33

🎧 put your ‘on repeat’ playlist on shuffle & let your friends pick their favorite of the first five songs! 🎶

tagging @diotimas @just1dumbb-tch @lolastones @sapphic-bombshell-vixen @yvesbuprofen if you want to <3

links to the songs under the cut!

[linghxr]

Analyzing Chinese Names: Syllables & Tones

It’s been a while since my last post about Chinese names. In one previous post, I wrote that I wanted to explore tones and syllable structure in Chinese names. And now here we are. I ended up shifting my focus a bit throughout the process, but I’m still excited to be sharing my results.

These questions/ideas guided this post:

Sometimes you don’t know how a name is written because you’ve only heard it or seen a transliteration. Setting aside the written language (Chinese characters), what syllables/sounds are most common?

I have read about naming conventions regarding tones. For example, using a mix of tones (instead of reusing the same tone) gives names a dynamic flow. So how are tones distributed in names?

Buckle up, everyone. This is gonna be a long one.

About the Data

I started with the data from my previous in-depth post about Chinese names. Like before, most names are from contestants on idol shows or members of idol groups. I added more names in this category and also some names of athletes (since for athletes it is also relatively easy to discern gender). In total, there were 4361 names (2340 female, 2021 male). Most names belong to individuals from Mainland China, but there are also names belonging to people from Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore. See my past post for more details.

I had to do a lot of work to process the name data for this analysis. I will add some details towards the end of this post for those who are interested. I just want to note here that: 

I did some work to account for tone sandhi for yi 一. As a result, you may see this character labeled as 1st, 2nd, or 4th tone.

I also applied tone change rules when there were multiple 3rd tones in a row (but not for surnames as it shouldn’t change there).

I had to correct for duoyinzi 多音字. Most of the time, it’s pretty clear which pronunciation is used, but there are some ambiguous cases.

I use standard Mainland pronunciation, not Taiwanese pronunciation. Characters like 薇 are pronounced differently in these locations.

I’m an imperfect human and probably didn’t catch everything. So keep that in mind.

Given Names (Overall)

First we will examine the overall results for all syllables across all given names to get a nice overview. Then we will dive into single-character given names vs. two-character given names.

Top Given Name Syllables (w/ Tones)

Pictured: Some of the most frequent characters for the top 11 syllables.

List format: Syllable / count Corresponding characters that occurred more than once

Yǔ / 263 宇 雨 羽 语 予 禹 瑀

Xīn / 229 欣 鑫 馨 心 昕 新 歆 芯 薪

Jiā / 216 佳 嘉 家 加 珈

Yì / 201 一 艺 奕 逸 亦 毅 懿 翊 义 易 翼 忆 意 译 轶 熠 羿 亿 薏

Zǐ / 139 子 梓 紫

Qí / 134 琪 琦 奇 祺 麒 淇 齐 棋 其 岐 崎

Wén / 116 文 雯 闻 纹

Jié / 112 杰 洁 婕 捷 颉 倢

Yù / 102 玉 钰 煜 昱 郁 裕 喻 谕 毓 育 誉

Jùn / 99 俊 峻 珺 骏 浚 竣

Yáng / 99 洋 阳 扬 杨 炀 旸

Top Given Name Syllables (w/o Tones)

List format: Syllable / count Corresponding characters that occurred more than once

Yu / 419 宇 雨 玉 羽 钰 语 瑜 予 妤 煜 禹 昱 郁 俞 渝 裕 于 喻 瑀 谕 余 娱 愚 毓 育 誉

Yi / 356 一 怡 艺 奕 仪 依 逸 亦 伊 毅 宜 懿 翊 义 祎 易 翼 苡 忆 意 译 轶 颐 乙 以 熠 羿 亿 倚 薏

Xin / 232 欣 鑫 馨 心 昕 新 歆 芯 薪 信

Jia / 217 佳 嘉 家 加 珈

Jun / 165 俊 君 峻 钧 军 珺 均 骏 浚 竣

Zi / 157 子 梓 紫 姿 兹

Qi / 151 琪 琦 奇 祺 绮 麒 启 淇 齐 棋 其 岐 崎

Hao / 141 豪 浩 昊 皓 灏 淏 濠

Wei / 139 伟 玮 威 维 薇 蔚 微 炜 唯 纬 葳 为 崴 巍 𬀩 苇 韦

Xiao / 136 晓 小 笑 筱 孝 潇 篠 箫 肖

Given Name Syllable Tones

List format: Tone / count

2nd / 2729

1st / 1993

4th / 1885

3rd / 1167

Single-Character Given Names (单名)

There were 948 single-character names in total. That comes out to about 22% of all 4361 names. 

Top Single-Character Given Names (w/ Tones)

List format: Syllable / count All corresponding characters

Xīn / 41 鑫 欣 昕 馨 新 心 锌

Yáng / 29 洋 扬 杨 阳 旸 炀

Yǔ / 20 宇 雨 禹 羽 瑀 语

Lì / 18 丽 立 莉 俐 栎 栗

Yì / 18 艺 奕 逸 忆 易 毅 燚 羿

Yuè / 18 悦 玥 越 月 粤 跃

Jié / 17 洁 杰 倢 婕 捷 颉

Hào / 16 浩 昊 淏 灏

Jìng / 14 静 婧 靓* 竞 靖

Qiàn / 14 倩 茜**

*Can be pronounced jìng or liàng. I went with jìng. **Can be pronounced qiàn or xī. I went with qiàn.

Top Single-Character Given Names (w/o Tones)

List format: Syllable / count All corresponding characters

Xin / 41 鑫 欣 昕 馨 新 心 锌

Yu / 31 宇 雨 钰 煜 玉 瑜 禹 羽 昱 渝 瑀 语

Yang / 29 洋 扬 杨 阳 旸 炀

Yi / 23 艺 奕 怡 逸 一 忆 易 毅 燚 祎 羿

Wei / 22 伟 威 炜 维 蔚 薇 𬀩 玮

Hao / 19 浩 昊 豪 淏 灏

Jing / 19 静 晶 婧 靓* 璟 竞 菁 靖

Li / 19 丽 立 莉 俐 李 栎 栗

Ying / 19 颖 莹 影 滢 赢 瀛 盈

Yue / 18 悦 玥 越 月 粤 跃

*Can be pronounced jìng or liàng. I went with jìng.

Single-Character Name Tones

List format: Tone / count

2nd / 308

4th / 264

1st / 253

3rd / 123

Full Name Tone Patterns for Single-Character Given Names

Look at the darker “stripes” for the 2nd tone. The 3rd tone’s low popularity also stood out to me.

List format: Tone of surname, tone of given name / count

2nd, 2nd / 140

2nd, 1st / 127

2nd, 4th / 123

1st, 2nd / 80

1st, 4th / 73

1st, 1st / 68

2nd, 3rd / 52

4th, 2nd / 45

3rd, 2nd / 43

1st, 3rd / 39

3rd, 4th / 37

4th, 4th / 31

3rd, 1st / 29

4th, 1st / 29

4th, 3rd / 17

3rd, 3rd / 15

Two-Character Given Names (双名)

Now for two-character given names. There were 3413 total (about 78%). First I will look at these given names as a whole. Then I will separately examine the 1st syllable and 2nd syllable positions.

I was very interested to see the most common name going by sound and not characters. Living in the US, I often see transliterated Chinese names with no characters in sight. This effectively “merges” names that are distinct in Chinese. All I can do is guess what the characters (and thus tones) are.

Top Two-Character Given Names (w/ Tones)

Pictured: Character combinations that occurred more than once for the top 12 two-character given names.

List format: Given name / count All corresponding character combinations

Jiāxīn / 17 嘉欣 佳欣 佳薪 佳鑫 嘉新 嘉歆 嘉馨

Jiāyí / 12 佳怡 嘉怡 佳仪 嘉仪 家仪 家怡

Xīnyǔ / 10 心雨 新宇 心语 欣宇 欣雨 鑫宇 馨予

Xīnyuè / 10 馨月 心玥 昕玥 欣悦 歆玥 馨悦 馨玥

Hàorán / 9 浩然 皓然

Jùnjié / 9 俊杰 俊洁

Chénxī / 8 晨曦 晨熙 晨晞 晨晰 晨溪

Jiāqí / 8 佳琦 家齐 佳琪 嘉琪 嘉祺 嘉齐

Shānshān / 8 珊珊 杉杉 姗姗

Xīnyí / 8 心怡 欣怡 心仪 鑫怡

Yìwén / 8 一文 奕雯 艺文 译文 逸文

Yǔqíng / 8 雨晴 语晴 宇晴 雨情

Top Two-Character Given Names (w/o Tones)

List format: Given name / count All corresponding character combinations

Jiaxin / 17 嘉欣 佳欣 佳薪 佳鑫 嘉新 嘉歆 嘉馨

Jiayi / 16 佳怡 嘉怡 佳仪 佳依 加一 嘉仪 嘉艺 嘉谊 家仪 家怡 家毅

Xinyu / 15 心雨 欣妤 新宇 心妤 心玉 心语 欣宇 欣雨 鑫宇 馨予

Junjie / 12 俊杰 军杰 俊洁 钧杰

Xiaoyu / 12 小雨 晓玉 晓钰 小钰 晓宇 晓瑜 晓雨 笑语

Yifan / 12 一凡 艺凡 一帆 一幡 一璠 依凡 屹繁 怡凡 薏帆

Xinyi / 10 心怡 欣怡 心仪 欣佚 鑫一 鑫怡

Xinyue / 10 馨月 心玥 昕玥 欣悦 歆玥 馨悦 馨玥

Yuqing / 10 雨晴 语晴 宇庆 宇晴 钰清 雨情

Two-Character Given Name Tones

The grey square is due to the 3rd tone tone change rule.

List format: Tone of given name 1st syllable, tone of given name 2nd syllable / count

4th, 2nd / 560

1st, 2nd / 421

3rd, 2nd / 373

2nd, 2nd / 304

4th, 1st / 282

3rd, 1st / 191

1st, 1st / 183

2nd, 1st / 177

1st, 4th / 169

2nd, 4th / 152

1st, 3rd / 134

2nd, 3rd / 130

4th, 4th / 121

3rd, 4th / 120

4th, 3rd / 96

Full Name Tone Patterns for Two-Character Given Names

Pictured: The top 10 full name tone patterns for two-character given names.

I found these results very interesting. As I mentioned earlier, I’ve read about how using certain sequences of tones creates a pleasant-sounding flow. I had some fun saying aloud names that fit these patterns and judging the dynamic ups-and-downs of how they flow.

List format: Tone of surname, tone of given name 1st syllable, tone of given name 2nd syllable / count

2nd, 4th, 2nd / 273

2nd, 1st, 2nd / 179

2nd, 3rd, 2nd / 179

2nd, 4th, 1st / 138

1st, 4th, 2nd / 135

2nd, 2nd, 2nd / 129

1st, 3rd, 2nd / 98

2nd, 3rd, 1st / 95

2nd, 1st, 4th / 92

1st, 1st, 2nd / 89

These are only the top 10 patterns. See the bottom of the post for the full list.

Two-Character Given Names: First Syllable

Top First Syllables for Two-Character Given Names (w/ Tones)

List format: Syllable / count Corresponding characters that occurred more than once

Jiā / 171 佳 嘉 家 加 珈

Yì / 138 一 艺 奕 逸 亦 翊 易 义 懿 翼 译 亿 忆 毅 羿 薏 轶

Zǐ / 123 子 梓 紫

Yǔ / 115 雨 宇 语 羽 禹 予

Xīn / 95 欣 心 馨 鑫 新 昕 歆 薪 芯

Xiǎo / 79 晓 小 筱

Jùn / 69 俊 峻 珺 竣 骏

Sī / 63 思 斯

Yù / 53 玉 钰 煜 昱 郁 裕 喻 毓 育 誉

Mèng / 49 梦 孟

Top First Syllables for Two-Character Given Names (w/o Tones)

List format: Syllable / count Corresponding characters that occurred more than once

Yi / 201 一 艺 奕 怡 依 逸 亦 翊 伊 宜 易 苡 义 乙 以 懿 翼 译 亿 忆 毅 祎 羿 薏 轶

Yu / 188 雨 宇 语 玉 钰 羽 禹 煜 俞 昱 郁 于 渝 裕 予 喻 毓 瑜 育 誉

Jia / 171 佳 嘉 家 加 珈

Zi / 133 子 梓 紫 姿

Xiao / 118 晓 小 笑 孝 潇 筱

Xin / 98 欣 心 馨 鑫 新 昕 歆 信 薪 芯

Jun / 84 俊 峻 君 钧 军 珺 竣 骏

Jing / 67 静 婧 景 敬 靖 晶 京 竞

Zhi / 61 智 志 芷 之 治 知 祉

Si / 60 思 斯

First Syllable Tones for Two-Character Given Names

List format: Tone / count

4th / 1059

1st / 907

2nd / 763

3rd / 684

Two-Character Given Names: Second Syllable

Top Second Syllables for Two-Character Given Names (w/ Tones)

List format: Syllable / count Corresponding characters that occurred more than once

Yǔ / 128 宇 雨 羽 予 语 瑀 禹

Qí / 100 琪 琦 祺 奇 淇 齐 棋 麒 岐

Xīn / 93 欣 鑫 馨 昕 心 新 歆 芯

Jié / 83 杰 洁 婕 捷

Wén / 68 文 雯

Yí / 63 怡 仪 宜 颐

Lín / 61 霖 琳 林 麟 淋

Tíng / 61 婷 廷 庭

Yuán / 59 源 元 媛 圆 园 缘 原

Yáng / 58 阳 洋 扬 杨 炀

Top Second Syllables for Two-Character Given Names (w/o Tones)

List format: Syllable / count Corresponding characters that occurred more than once

Yu / 200 宇 雨 玉 羽 瑜 妤 予 钰 语 昱 煜 谕 郁 余 瑀 禹

Yi / 132 怡 仪 一 毅 依 艺 逸 亦 伊 宜 懿 颐 义 奕 意 祎 熠 翼 轶

Qi / 105 琪 琦 祺 奇 淇 绮 齐 棋 麒 岐

Xin / 93 欣 鑫 馨 昕 心 新 歆 芯

Jie / 83 杰 洁 婕 捷

Wei / 75 伟 玮 薇 维 威 微 炜 蔚 葳 崴 纬

Hao / 74 豪 昊 浩 皓 濠

Jun / 72 君 俊 钧 峻 军 均 珺 骏

Wen / 68 文 雯

Yuan / 68 源 元 媛 圆 远 园 渊 缘 原

Second Syllable Tones for Two-Character Given Names

List format: Tone / count

2nd / 1658

1st / 833

4th / 562

3rd / 360

Surnames

Because the majority of the population shares a relatively small number of surnames, I decided to only look at tones.

Surname Tones

List format: Tone / count

2nd / 2047

1st / 1072

3rd / 640

4th / 602

Just take a look at the top 20 surnames in China. Clearly, the 2nd tone is dominating. There’s only one 4th tone surname!

Data Processing

I segmented the names so each character was alone. I just did this in Google Sheets, because that’s where I store the names I’ve gathered. Then I exported the data in CSV format.

I discarded names longer than 3 characters—because these are less common, I decided not to address them to make things easier for myself.

I used the pinyin library for Python to obtain pinyin for each character. I used the numerical format (ie. “ni3”) so that I could easily obtain the syllable w/o tone, the syllable w/ tone, and the tone. I also utilized pandas and numpy. This was done in Google Colabs. I made the unfortunate mistake of not commenting my code, and I wrote it a while ago, so I now I have no idea what is going on (whoops).

Next I dumped this data into a tibble in R for the real analysis.

For as many 多音字 as I could identify, I had to check and potentially fix the pinyin transcription. For example, I had to make sure that 曾 was going to zeng1, not ceng2. Honestly, I’m sure I missed something, but this was so, so tedious. This is also the step where I accounted for the 3rd tone tone change and yi 一 tone change rules.

I used a Python script to convert the toneless pinyin to my own syllable notation system. This was tricky to figure out, but fortunately I was able to use some code I already had from a project I was involved in during college.

I added the syllable info to my giant tibble in R. Because everything was separated into surname, given name 1st character, and given name 2nd character, I also had to create some new columns to combine information to get information for whole given names and full names.

Then it was basically a lot of pipes. Here’s an example: names %>%  filter(nchar(names$name) > 2) %>%  group_by(given_struc) %>%  summarise(count = n()) %>%  arrange(desc(count)) %>%  view()

Bonus Lists

There were some other things I was curious about but felt didn’t have a place in the main body of this post.

I wanted to see which syllables were represented by the most unique characters in my dataset. If the number of unique characters is high, that’s a sign that I would probably have trouble guessing which character someone’s name contains.

I was also curious about open vs. closed syllables and closed syllables ending in /n/ vs. /ŋ/. For instance, take a pair of names like Yixin and Xinyi or Xinling and Lingxin. These names consist of the same syllables in a different order. I wanted to know which order is more common.

Syllables with the Most Unique Characters (w/ Tones)

List format: Syllable / count All corresponding characters

Yì / 27 一 艺 奕 逸 亦 毅 懿 翊 义 易 翼 忆 意 译 轶 熠 羿 亿 薏 佚 佾 埸 屹 异 弋 怿 燚 翌

Qí / 15 琪 琦 奇 祺 麒 淇 齐 棋 其 岐 崎 圻 祁 祈 骐

Yú / 14 瑜 妤 俞 渝 于 余 娱 愚 宇*** 愉 榆 舆 雨*** 鱼

Yù / 14 玉 钰 煜 昱 郁 裕 喻 谕 毓 育 誉 寓 浴 芋

Xīn / 12 欣 鑫 馨 心 昕 新 歆 芯 薪 妡 忻 锌

Yuán / 12 源 媛 元 园 圆 缘 原 嫄 沅 湲 芫 袁

Líng / 11 玲 灵 凌 翎 绫 伶 羚 铃 龄 苓 陵

Xī / 11 希 熙 曦 溪 晞 惜 熹 兮 浠 晰 西

Hóng / 9 宏 红 弘 鸿 泓 虹 洪 闳 汯

Lì / 9 丽 莉 立 力 俐 利 俪 栎 栗

Zhēn / 9 珍 真 臻 蓁 祯 桢 榛 甄 贞

***3rd tone character that is pronounced as 2nd tone due to appearing before another 3rd tone character.

Syllables with the Most Unique Characters (w/o Tones)

List format: Syllable / count All corresponding characters

Yi / 45 一 怡 艺 奕 仪 依 逸 亦 伊 毅 宜 懿 翊 义 祎 易 翼 苡 忆 意 译 轶 颐 乙 以 熠 羿 亿 倚 薏 佚 佾 埸 壹 夷 屹 异 弋 怿 沂 洢 燚 翌 谊 铱

Yu / 33 宇 雨 玉 羽 钰 语 瑜 予 妤 煜 禹 昱 郁 俞 渝 裕 于 喻 瑀 谕 余 娱 愚 毓 育 誉 寓 愉 榆 浴 舆 芋 鱼

Qi / 20 琪 琦 奇 祺 绮 麒 启 淇 齐 棋 其 岐 崎 圻 期 柒 栖 祁 祈 骐

Wei / 20 伟 玮 威 维 薇 蔚 微 炜 唯 纬 葳 为 崴 巍 𬀩 苇 韦 卫 惟 未

Yan / 19 妍 言 燕 彦 艳 岩 延 谚 嫣 琰 雁 晏 研 颜 砚 衍 严 炎 焱

Yuan / 16 源 媛 元 远 园 圆 渊 缘 原 嫄 愿 沅 湲 芫 苑 袁

Xi / 16 希 熙 曦 汐 溪 晞 玺 喜 惜 熹 兮 浠 习 晰 禧 西

Xiao / 15 小 笑 筱 孝 潇 篠 箫 肖 宵 效 枭 校 萧 霄

Yun / 15 云 芸 韵 昀 赟 允 匀 沄 筠 韫 妘 澐 蕰 蕴 运

Zhen / 15 振 珍 真 臻 蓁 祯 震 镇 朕 桢 榛 甄 贞 轸 圳

Two-Character Given Name Syllable Structures

This is the top 10 out of 14 (the bottom 4 were very rare).

List format: Structure of given name 1st syllable, structure of given name 2nd syllable — example / count

Open, open — ex: Jiayi / 821

Open, closed-n — ex: Yijin / 701

Open, closed-ng — ex: Yijing / 468

Closed-n, open — ex: Jinyi / 450

Closed-ng, open — ex: Jingyi / 308

Closed-n, closed-n — ex: Jinyan / 206

Closed-ng, closed-n — ex: Jingyan / 157

Closed-n, closed-ng — ex: Jinyang / 141

Closed-ng, closed-ng — ex: Jingyang / 139

Open, closed-er — ex: Xue'er / 14

Full Name Syllable Structures for Two-Character Given Names

This is the top 29 out of 36 (the bottom 7 were very rare).

List format: Structure of surname syllable, structure of given name 1st syllable, structure of given name 2nd syllable — example / count

Open, open, open— ex: Li Jiayi / 370

Open, open, closed-n— ex: Li Yijin / 336

Closed-ng, open, open— ex: Wang Jiayi / 273

Open, open, closed-ng— ex: Li Yijing / 228

Open, closed-n, open— ex: Li Jinyi / 225

Closed-ng, open, closed-n— ex: Wang Yijin / 223

Closed-n, open, open— ex: Chen Jiayi / 178

Closed-ng, closed-n, open— ex: Wang Jinyi / 165

Open, closed-ng, open— ex: Li Jingyi / 151

Closed-ng, open, closed-ng— ex: Wang Yijing / 146

Closed-n, open, closed-n— ex: Chen Yijin / 142

Open, closed-n, closed-n— ex: Li Jinyan / 104

Closed-ng, closed-ng, open— ex: Wang Jingyi / 97

Closed-n, open, closed-ng— ex: Chen Yijing / 94

Open, closed-ng, closed-n— ex: Li Jingyan / 86

Open, closed-ng, closed-ng— ex: Li Jingyang / 75

Open, closed-n, closed-ng— ex: Li Jinyang / 66

Closed-ng, closed-n, closed-n— ex: Wang Jinyan / 62

Closed-n, closed-n, open— ex: Chen Jinyi / 60

Closed-n, closed-ng, open— ex: Chen Jingyi / 60

Closed-ng, closed-n, closed-ng— ex: Wang Jinyang / 45

Closed-ng, closed-ng, closed-ng— ex: Wang Jingyang / 45

Closed-ng, closed-ng, closed-n— ex: Wang Jingyan / 43

Closed-n, closed-n, closed-n— ex: Chen Jinyan / 40

Closed-n, closed-n, closed-ng— ex: Chen Jinyang / 30

Closed-n, closed-ng, closed-n— ex: Chen Jingyan / 28

Closed-n, closed-ng, closed-ng— ex: Chen Jingyang / 19

Open, open, closed-er— ex: Li Xue'er / 8

Closed-ng, open, closed-er— ex: Wang Xue'er / 4

Extended List(s)

Full Name Tone Patterns for Two-Character Given Names

2nd, 4th, 2nd / 273

2nd, 1st, 2nd / 179

2nd, 3rd, 2nd / 179

2nd, 4th, 1st / 138

1st, 4th, 2nd / 135

2nd, 2nd, 2nd / 129

1st, 3rd, 2nd / 98

2nd, 3rd, 1st / 95

2nd, 1st, 4th / 92

1st, 1st, 2nd / 89

2nd, 1st, 1st / 88

2nd, 2nd, 1st / 84

3rd, 1st, 2nd / 83

3rd, 4th, 2nd / 81

1st, 2nd, 2nd / 73

4th, 4th, 2nd / 71

4th, 1st, 2nd / 70

1st, 4th, 1st / 69

2nd, 3rd, 4th / 68

2nd, 2nd, 3rd / 64

2nd, 1st, 3rd / 59

3rd, 2nd, 2nd / 59

2nd, 2nd, 4th / 56

4th, 3rd, 2nd / 56

2nd, 4th, 4th / 54

2nd, 4th, 3rd / 47

1st, 2nd, 4th / 43

4th, 2nd, 2nd / 43

1st, 1st, 3rd / 42

4th, 4th, 1st / 42

1st, 3rd, 1st / 41

3rd, 3rd, 2nd / 40

1st, 1st, 1st / 35

1st, 2nd, 1st / 35

1st, 2nd, 3rd / 35

1st, 1st, 4th / 34

4th, 1st, 1st / 34

3rd, 4th, 1st / 33

1st, 4th, 4th / 31

3rd, 2nd, 1st / 30

1st, 3rd, 4th / 29

4th, 2nd, 1st / 28

4th, 3rd, 1st / 28

3rd, 2nd, 4th / 27

3rd, 3rd, 1st / 27

3rd, 1st, 1st / 26

4th, 2nd, 4th / 26

1st, 4th, 3rd / 23

3rd, 1st, 4th / 23

3rd, 2nd, 3rd / 21

3rd, 4th, 4th / 20

4th, 1st, 4th / 20

4th, 1st, 3rd / 19

3rd, 4th, 3rd / 18

4th, 4th, 4th / 16

3rd, 1st, 3rd / 14

3rd, 3rd, 4th / 14

4th, 2nd, 3rd / 10

4th, 3rd, 4th / 9

4th, 4th, 3rd / 8

If you made it to the end, I am seriously impressed by your dedication. Thanks for checking out my nerdy ramblings about Chinese names! Don’t forget to check out my past posts on this topic for more. I hope they will help demystify Chinese names and make learning about Chinese names less intimidating.

A Closer Look at Chinese Names

Reading Chinese Names: Female Names

Reading Chinese Names: Male Names

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you win some (小鬼 back on 我们的歌) you lose some (尚雯婕 on 我们的歌)

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《我是歌手》 Season 1——Thoughts and Feelings

I finally finished rewatching 《我是歌手》 season 1. It only took me 4 months...

Anyways. I've put together some thoughts I have on this season (with some spoilers about eliminations and whatnot).

Here's a link to the YouTube playlist of every performance from this season (I'm pretty sure I got them all). It's 111 videos. For some reason, the 芒果TV account had like none of 羽泉's performances posted (maybe a copyright thing?), and they were missing a few other performances, so sorry if the quality on a few of the videos isn't the best. I went with the best versions I could find on YouTube.

Here's where I watched this season. It was actually kinda difficult to find a place to watch this season for free; a lot of the other seasons were on YouTube for free when I first watched them (though some have been removed since then). Thankfully I found this site, and the quality is really good. There's some funky sound editing moments, though it's unclear if the original recording is bad or if it's the video on this site. Either way, it's the best quality version I've found to date.

Also, advanced apologies to any 沙宝亮 fans out there.

The singers in this season all seemed to be more established and well-known. I mean, 齐秦 alone is wildly famous, and then there’s 羽泉 and 黄贯中 (from Beyond). That’s not a bad thing, since all of them were really talented. However, I personally think the show is at its best when there are a few newer or lesser-known singers thrown into the mix. It makes the competition even more unpredictable, and a lot of these singers bring some pretty unique performances to the stage. I think the only reason I have this preference and this stands out to me is because I watched all the other seasons before season 1, so my expectations of the show had already been set based on what they’d done in later seasons. So I’m not judging season one too much for this, and I understand production would want to do what they could to ensure a decent viewership.

One of the things they did this season that never shows up again in other seasons is have one episode where everyone spins a wheel and picks their next song that way. I thought it was an interesting one-off episode idea, and it gave us a lot of great performances. It pushed some of the singers kinda far outside of their comfort zones, and I always like to watch when singers pick challenging songs. A really great episode came out of this idea. As much as I love the singers getting creative freedom, sometimes it’s fun to watch them struggle a bit. Idk, maybe that’s mean of me to say lol

There was also one episode where each singer picked one of 齐秦’s songs to perform, and it was sort of like a tribute episode since he had to leave the season early? And at the end 齐秦 performed his return song, which he never got to do when he left. I liked this episode since I’m not super familiar with 齐秦 (I’m more familiar with his sister, the absolute goddess 齐豫), so I got to hear more of his songs. As much as I liked it, I don’t know if it’d work every single season. 

胡海泉 was also a really good host. I found all of his mistakes really relatable because I, too, cannot fucking speak. 

In terms of the singers, the ones who stood out the most to me were 林志炫, 黄绮珊, 尚雯婕, and 杨宗纬. I already knew about 林志炫 and 黄绮珊 before starting this season, so I knew what to expect from them. Every performance from 林志炫 was perfect (what else would you expect from the One Take King?), but my favorite performance of his (and actually of the whole season) was 《没离开过》. 黄绮珊 was also really great to watch. Even though I personally didn’t like a couple of the songs she chose, she was consistently killing every performance, even when she was sick. 尚雯婕 was pretty unpredictable in terms of genre, but I liked a lot of her performances. My favorite from her was 《Dog Days Are Over》, and I think it’s a shame she didn’t get to perform that before she got eliminated. She was really creative with her picks, and I really respected the risks she took even if I didn’t fully enjoy it sometimes. (Also, she was definitely this season’s fashionista. Those shoes, man) 杨宗纬 was a really unexpected favorite, since he wasn’t around very long before the resurrection round. But he really chose some good songs and put his everything into the resurrection round, and kinda won me over at the last minute. 

The rest of the singers were good, but I wouldn’t go so far as to say I really loved or hated them. With one exception, that is.

沙宝亮 is a very talented singer, and I think he put on some very good performances. However. I personally could not stand the man. You know how sometimes you just see a person, and immediately think, “I do not like this person”? No good reason for it, there’s just something that you personally aren’t a fan of? Yeah, that was me with 沙宝亮. Every time he was onstage, I felt uninterested. Each time he spoke on camera, I did not care. This man did nothing particular to earn this from me, yet here we are. I was glad when we didn’t win the resurrection round, only for him to come back and torment me in the final episode. Despicable. Since I just spent this whole paragraph trashing him, let me be kind and say his performance of 《Someone Like You》 was quite good.

Now that I’ve discussed all the singers, let’s give out some “awards”.

My favorite performance: 林志炫《没离开过》

Best Fashion Moments™: 尚雯婕’s ensemble in episode 7 （非常的French）, 沙宝亮 in episode 9 (it was just ugly, sry), 周晓鸥 in episode 10 (that snakeskin vest? thing? was a Choice), 黄贯中 in the resurrection round (zero effort put in to covering that tattoo and it’s pretty funny imo)

Best hosting moments from 胡海泉: episode 1 mixup between 字zi/zhi, episode 3’s ze样一首歌, doing tongue twisters as prep in episode 4, this quote from episode 5 “看完明姐的表演，我宣布辣妈时代正式到来”, and episode 10 when the subtitlers really committed to spelling out every mistake he made

Most noteworthy episode: episode 5 (lots of great performances, the aforementioned 辣妈时代 comment, the lights in the confessional scene needed to be adjusted bc 周晓鸥’s bald head was too shiny, the guitarist Tommy was not wearing glasses/sunglasses which dealt me a deep psychic blow. 我是歌手 superfans will understand)

So overall, I did enjoy this season. I liked a lot of performances, and hated very few. Even though it was pretty good across the board, I don’t think it has a lot of rewatch value for me. There are certain seasons I know I’m excited to see again (like seasons two and three 👀), and I don’t think this would be one of those. Instead I’m probably going to just return to a few standout performances and rewatch those (I’ve already watched 《没离开过》 an embarrassing number of times).

[shang-wenjie]

[deankarolina]

Sleepy Wenjie

[just1dumbb-tch]

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this song still makes me vibrate off my bed for some reason

[liu-anhuaming]

Love how 林志炫 saw 尚雯婕's outfit for this performance and all he could say was “哇…非常的…French”