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Chee Kong name meaning

  • 志剛aspiration, will; firm, strong
  • 志光aspiration, will; light
  • 智剛wisdom; firm, strong
Letters
8
Syllables
2
First letter
C
Romanization
Hokkien, Hakka
Character options
3
Category
Chinese Names
Gender
♂ Boy
  • Chinese characters志剛志光智剛
Peak 1960s: 10%
of the boy top-10 total
JPN Chinese table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadeboy
1940s–
1950s–
1960s10%
1970s7.5%
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–

Chinese Names: C

Chee Kong is a Chinese boy's name from Hokkien, Hakka or Cantonese; written 志剛, it means 'aspiration; firm'.

Chinese characters for Chee Kong

This spelling is common in Hokkien, Hakka and Cantonese romanization.

  • 志剛

    aspiration, will; firm, strong

    Hokkien chì kong / Hakka chṳ kông / Cantonese zi3 gong1

  • 志光

    aspiration, will; light

    Hokkien chì kong / Hakka chṳ kông

  • 智剛

    wisdom; firm, strong

    Hakka chṳ kông / Cantonese zi3 gong1

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 Kong

Chee Kong can come from Hokkien, Hakka or Cantonese. 志剛 is read chì kong in Hokkien, chṳ kông in Hakka and zi3 gong1 in Cantonese; 志光 (aspiration; light) fits Hokkien and Hakka, and 智剛 (wisdom; firm) fits Hakka and Cantonese. According to JPN, it peaked in the 1960s with 884 baby boys. The real meaning depends on the characters the family chose.

Gender♂ Boy
RomanizationHokkien, Hakka, Cantonese
PartsChee + Kong
First letterChinese Names starting with C

Chee Kong in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
not in the top 10
1960s
Boy: 884 · 10%
1970s
Boy: 819 · 7.5%
1980s
not in the top 10
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Chee Kong 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: 志 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. MDBG: 志 · mdbg.net · meaning
  3. Wiktionary: 剛 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  4. MDBG: 剛 · mdbg.net · meaning
  5. Wiktionary: 光 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  6. MDBG: 光 · mdbg.net · meaning
  7. Wiktionary: 智 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  8. MDBG: 智 · mdbg.net · meaning

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