Chinese Names · Boy
Beng Kiang name meaning
- 明強bright, clear; strong, powerful
- Letters
- 9
- Syllables
- 2●●
- First letter
- B
- Romanization
- Hokkien
- Character options
- 1
- Category
- Chinese Names
- Gender
- ♂ Boy
- Chinese characters明強
records of Malaysian citizens on Wikidata carry the name Beng Kiang
A count of Wikidata records, not of the population.Beng Kiang is a Chinese boy's name romanized from Hokkien; the written form 明強 means 'bright; strong'.
Chinese characters for Beng Kiang
This spelling is common in Hokkien romanization.
- 明強
bright, clear; strong, powerful
Hokkien bêng kiâng / Mandarin míng qiáng
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 Beng Kiang
Beng Kiang follows the Hokkien reading of 明強: Beng for 明 (bêng) and Kiang for 強 (kiâng, the Zhangzhou literary reading). The characters 明強 are recorded for Malaysians with this spelling. 明 means bright, and 強 means strong. The actual meaning depends on the characters the family chose.
| Gender | ♂ Boy |
|---|---|
| Romanization | Hokkien |
| Parts | Beng + Kiang |
| First letter | Chinese Names starting with B |
Character pages
Each page shows the character’s recorded meanings, dialect readings and every Malaysian spelling.
Sources
- Wiktionary: 明 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
- MDBG: 明 · mdbg.net · meaning
- Wiktionary: 強 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
- MDBG: 強 · mdbg.net · meaning
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