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Bee Wah name meaning

  • 美花beautiful; flower
  • 美华beautiful; splendour, magnificent
Letters
6
Syllables
2
First letter
B
Romanization
Hokkien, Cantonese
Character options
2
Gender
♀ Girl
  • Chinese characters美花美华
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records of Malaysian citizens on Wikidata carry the name Bee Wah

A count of Wikidata records, not of the population.

Chinese Names: B

Bee Wah is a Chinese girl's name romanized mainly from Hokkien; one written form, 美花, means 'beautiful; flower'.

Chinese characters for Bee Wah

This spelling is common in Hokkien and Cantonese romanization.

  • 美花

    beautiful; flower

    Hokkien bí hoa / Mandarin měi huā

    attested

  • 美华

    beautiful; splendour, magnificent

    Hokkien bí hôa / Cantonese waa4 (华) / Mandarin měi huá

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 Bee Wah

Bee is the Hokkien reading of 美 (bí). Wah is close to the Hokkien hoa for 花 or hôa for 华, and matches the Cantonese waa4 for 华. The characters 美花 are recorded for Malaysians with this spelling. The actual meaning depends on the characters the family chose.

Gender♀ Girl
RomanizationHokkien, Cantonese
PartsBee + Wah
First letterChinese Names starting with B

Character pages

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

Sources

  1. Wiktionary: 美 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. MDBG: 美 · mdbg.net · meaning
  3. Wiktionary: 花 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  4. MDBG: 花 · mdbg.net · meaning
  5. Wiktionary: 華 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  6. MDBG: 华 · mdbg.net · meaning

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