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An Khang name meaning

  • 安康peaceful, safe; healthy, well
Letters
7
Syllables
2
First letter
A
Romanization
Hokkien, Teochew
Character options
1
Category
Chinese Names
Gender
♂ Boy
  • Chinese characters安康
1

records of Malaysian citizens on Wikidata carry the name An Khang

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Chinese Names: A

An Khang is a Chinese boy's name romanized from Hokkien and Teochew; the written form 安康 means 'peaceful; healthy, well'.

Chinese characters for An Khang

This spelling is common in Hokkien and Teochew romanization.

  • 安康

    peaceful, safe; healthy, well

    Hokkien an / Teochew kang1 / Mandarin ān kāng

    attested

One spelling can stand for several characters. The meaning of a name depends on the characters the family chose; characters marked “attested” are found in records of real names.

About the name An Khang

An Khang combines An, the Hokkien reading of 安 (an), with Khang, which matches the Teochew reading of 康 (kang1, with an aspirated k). The characters 安康 are recorded for Malaysians with this spelling. The pair 安康 is also an ordinary Chinese word meaning healthy and well. The actual meaning depends on the characters the family chose.

Gender♂ Boy
RomanizationHokkien, Teochew
PartsAn + Khang
First letterChinese Names starting with A

Character pages

Each page shows the character’s recorded meanings, dialect readings and every Malaysian spelling.

Sources

  1. Wiktionary: 安 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. MDBG: 安 · mdbg.net · meaning
  3. Wiktionary: 康 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  4. MDBG: 康 · mdbg.net · meaning

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