#i need to stop reading about 治國大道 and go to sleep

[xiangqiankua]

Hi, I wanted to ask, is Dayou a unisex name? what is its meaning?

Alright dear anon, I was going to be strong and tell you to come back again with the characters for Dayou otherwise this was beyond me, but, as they say, curiosity killed the cat. If you knew the characters for Dayou, surely you would have provided them to begin with, right? In that case, who are the most famous folks named Dayou we can come up with just by googling?

We got 俞大猷 / Yú Dàyóu (1500s general-writer-martial artist) and Lo Ta-yo 羅大佑 / Luó Dàyòu (Taiwanese singer-songwriter). While it's tempting to examine 羅大佑, he also seems more niche and if you were into his music you'd probably know him by his Taiwanese name anyways. 俞大猷 on the other hand has got a recent movie out where he looks a lot more 帥 than his Wikipedia image, so let's go for that.

As you can probably guess by now, 大猷 is more of a male name. This Chinese name site says “大猷是男孩名字还是女孩名？

根据卜易居大数据性别分析，叫 大猷 的人，男性占85%，女性占15%，以男性居多” So 85% of people with the name 大猷 are male and 15% female, if you trust their data.

What does it mean? Well, 大 is big, 猷 is a literary word for plan or scheme, thus we might think he's good at scheming, however this dictionary says “釋義: 謂治國大道”. The more I try to investigate exactly what 治國大道 means, the less clarity I get from the history articles out there that reference the term. 治國 is "to rule a country" but does 大道 refer to a Daoist method of ruling a country, or simply the greatest way of governing? Let's just say the 大猷 vibe is about being a good ruler and leave it at that.

The Chinese name site elaborates more, but this is more of a fortune-telling personality profile than anything to do with the 漢字. "大猷名字性格印象 外表樂觀，內心多苦悶，待人誠懇，但喜怒無常，感情較極端，待人熱心積極而常為他人所累，耐心處事終有所得。"

If, after all, this 大猷 was not the Dayou you were looking for, feel free to provide the characters and we can try again!