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Chee Ming name meaning

  • 志明aspiration, will; bright, intelligent
  • 智明wisdom; bright, intelligent
  • 子明child; bright, intelligent
Letters
8
Syllables
2
First letter
C
Romanization
Cantonese
Character options
3
Category
Chinese Names
Gender
♂ Boy
  • Chinese characters志明智明子明
Peak 1960s: 7%
of the boy top-10 total
JPN Chinese table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadeboy
1940s–
1950s–
1960s7%
1970s–
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–

Chinese Names: C

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

Chinese characters for Chee Ming

This spelling is common in Cantonese romanization.

  • 志明

    aspiration, will; bright, intelligent

    Cantonese zi3 ming4

  • 智明

    wisdom; bright, intelligent

    Cantonese zi3 ming4

  • 子明

    child; bright, intelligent

    Cantonese zi2 ming4

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 Ming

Chee Ming is a spelling of the Cantonese sounds zi ming. Chee can stand for 志 (aspiration), 智 (wisdom) or 子 (child), while Ming is usually 明 (bright, intelligent). According to JPN, it peaked in the 1960s with 620 baby boys. The real meaning depends on the characters the family chose.

Gender♂ Boy
RomanizationCantonese
PartsChee + Ming
First letterChinese Names starting with C

Chee Ming in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
not in the top 10
1960s
Boy: 620 · 7%
1970s
not in the top 10
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 Ming 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: 智 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  6. MDBG: 智 · mdbg.net · meaning
  7. Wiktionary: 子 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  8. MDBG: 子 · mdbg.net · meaning

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