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Chee Hong name meaning

  • 梓康Chinese catalpa, hometown; peaceful and happy, healthy
  • 志康will, aspiration; peaceful and happy, healthy
  • 志宏will, aspiration; wide, vast, great
Letters
8
Syllables
2
First letter
C
Romanization
Cantonese, Hokkien
Character options
4
Category
Chinese Names
Gender
♂ Boy
  • Chinese characters梓康志康志宏志鴻
Peak 1980s: 9.6%
of the boy top-10 total
JPN Chinese table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadeboy
1940s–
1950s–
1960s–
1970s6.5%
1980s9.6%
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–
1

records of Malaysian citizens on Wikidata carry the name Chee Hong

A count of Wikidata records, not of the population.

Chinese Names: C

Chee Hong is a Chinese male given name with a Cantonese or Hokkien spelling; written 梓康, it means 'Chinese catalpa, hometown; peaceful and happy, healthy'.

Chinese characters for Chee Hong

This spelling is common in Cantonese and Hokkien romanization.

  • 梓康

    Chinese catalpa, hometown; peaceful and happy, healthy

    Cantonese zi2 hong1 / Mandarin zǐ kāng

    attested

  • 志康

    will, aspiration; peaceful and happy, healthy

    Cantonese zi3 hong1 / Mandarin zhì kāng

  • 志宏

    will, aspiration; wide, vast, great

    Hokkien chì hông / Mandarin zhì hóng

  • 志鴻

    will, aspiration; swan goose, large, great

    Hokkien chì hông / Mandarin zhì hóng

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 Chee Hong

Chee Hong is a Chinese male given name spelled after its Cantonese or Hokkien pronunciation. In Cantonese, Chee can stand for 梓 (zi2) or 志 (zi3) and Hong for 康 (hong1); in Hokkien, Chee is 志 (chì) and Hong is 宏 or 鴻 (hông). The characters 梓康 are recorded for Malaysians with this spelling. Characters that fit this spelling: 梓康 (Chinese catalpa, hometown; peaceful and happy, healthy); 志康 (will, aspiration; peaceful and happy, healthy); 志宏 (will, aspiration; wide, vast, great); 志鴻 (will, aspiration; swan goose, large, great). According to JPN, the name peaked in the 1980s with 724 baby boys. The actual meaning depends on the characters the family chose, since one spelling can stand for several characters.

Gender♂ Boy
RomanizationCantonese, Hokkien
PartsChee + Hong
First letterChinese Names starting with C

Chee Hong in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
not in the top 10
1960s
not in the top 10
1970s
Boy: 704 · 6.5%
1980s
Boy: 724 · 9.6%
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Chee Hong as their first name (as published by JPN), by decade of birth, for the decades in which it was in the top 10 for its sex in the JPN Chinese table. Bar length shows the name’s share of that decade’s top-10 total for the sex (the percentage after the count), because those totals differ between decades. Source: JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)

Character pages

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

Sources

  1. Wiktionary: 梓 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. Wiktionary: 康 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  3. Wiktionary: 志 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  4. Wiktionary: 宏 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  5. Wiktionary: 鴻 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning

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