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Chee Meng name meaning

  • 志明aspiration, will; bright, intelligent
  • 志銘aspiration, will; engraving, inscribed motto
Letters
8
Syllables
2
First letter
C
Romanization
Teochew
Character options
2
Category
Chinese Names
Gender
♂ Boy
  • Chinese characters志明志銘
Peak 1960s: 11.6%
of the boy top-10 total
JPN Chinese table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadeboy
1940s–
1950s–
1960s11.6%
1970s9.6%
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–

Chinese Names: C

Chee Meng is a Chinese boy's name from Teochew; written 志明, it means 'aspiration; bright'.

Chinese characters for Chee Meng

This spelling is common in Teochew romanization.

  • 志明

    aspiration, will; bright, intelligent

    Teochew zi3 mêng5

  • 志銘

    aspiration, will; engraving, inscribed motto

    Teochew zi3 mêng5

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 Meng

The spelling Chee Meng best matches the Teochew sounds zi3 mêng5. Chee commonly stands for 志 (aspiration, will), while Meng can be 明 (bright, intelligent) or 銘 (engraving, inscribed motto). According to JPN, it peaked in the 1970s with 1,043 baby boys. The real meaning depends on the characters the family chose.

Gender♂ Boy
RomanizationTeochew
PartsChee + Meng
First letterChinese Names starting with C

Chee Meng in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
not in the top 10
1960s
Boy: 1,027 · 11.6%
1970s
Boy: 1,043 · 9.6%
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 Meng 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: 明 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  4. MDBG: 明 · mdbg.net · meaning
  5. Wiktionary: 銘 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  6. MDBG: 銘 · mdbg.net · meaning

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