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Chee Leong name meaning

  • 志亮will, aspiration; bright, radiant
  • 志良will, aspiration; good, virtuous
  • 智亮wisdom, knowledge; bright, radiant
Letters
9
Syllables
2
First letter
C
Romanization
Cantonese, Hokkien
Character options
3
Category
Chinese Names
Gender
♂ Boy
  • Chinese characters志亮志良智亮
Peak 1970s: 6.9%
of the boy top-10 total
JPN Chinese table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadeboy
1940s–
1950s–
1960s–
1970s6.9%
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–
1

records of Malaysian citizens on Wikidata carry the name Chee Leong

A count of Wikidata records, not of the population.

Chinese Names: C

Chee Leong is a Chinese male given name with a Cantonese or Hokkien spelling; written 志亮, it means 'will, aspiration; bright, radiant'.

Chinese characters for Chee Leong

This spelling is common in Cantonese and Hokkien romanization.

  • 志亮

    will, aspiration; bright, radiant

    Cantonese zi3 loeng6 / Hokkien chì liōng / Mandarin zhì liàng

    attested

  • 志良

    will, aspiration; good, virtuous

    Cantonese zi3 loeng4 / Hokkien chì liông / Mandarin zhì liáng

  • 智亮

    wisdom, knowledge; bright, radiant

    Cantonese zi3 loeng6 / Mandarin zhì liàng

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 Leong

Chee Leong is a Chinese male given name spelled after its Cantonese or Hokkien pronunciation. Chee stands for 志 (Cantonese zi3, Hokkien chì) or 智 (Cantonese zi3), and Leong for 亮 (loeng6, Hokkien liōng) or 良 (loeng4, Hokkien liông). The characters 志亮 are recorded for Malaysians with this spelling. Characters that fit this spelling: 志亮 (will, aspiration; bright, radiant); 志良 (will, aspiration; good, virtuous); 智亮 (wisdom, knowledge; bright, radiant). According to JPN, the name peaked in the 1970s with 748 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 + Leong
First letterChinese Names starting with C

Chee Leong in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
not in the top 10
1960s
not in the top 10
1970s
Boy: 748 · 6.9%
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 Leong 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. Wiktionary: 亮 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  3. Wiktionary: 良 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  4. Wiktionary: 智 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning

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