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otaku553 · 2 years ago

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just curious, what are the chinese characters for your ocs names? since the romanizations dont convey tone and meaning haha

Here they are!

Their approximate meanings are heaven-bestowed or sent by the heavens for tianci and bountiful growth of thankfulness or gratefulness over time for xieran

Let me know if these don’t seem quite right, I did make up xieran’s name and I do not have much experience choosing Chinese names lmao

The two of them share a last name but I don’t know about the last name yet

#oc stuff #tianci and xieran #tianci is maybe like 3-4 years older than xieran I think #I have several thoughts about Chinese names #namely the fact that Chinese names can be gendered and sometimes similarities in names within a family are also based on gender #e.g. I share the same middle character as my sister: yong #while my brother and all the boys in my brother’s generation share the middle character xiang #my brother is xiang yuan my cousin is xiang bing #and Chinese names aren’t always corresponding to gender but it’s the meaning associated #my mom used to be mistaken by name for a guy pretty often apparently #my name yong qing has characters that mean beautiful singing and bright/sunny #like. it’s not explicitly gendered but by meaning it’s implied #the relationship of tianci and xieran’s names are a sign of their positions within their family #tianci is bestowed by the heavens and beloved and people are thankful for him #whereas xieran is expected to be grateful and appreciative to the things around them and the life they’ve been granted #it plays into the expectations for each of them and their relationship to self worth

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