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Chee Seng name meaning

  • 志成aspiration, will; succeed, accomplish
  • 志誠aspiration, will; sincere
  • 志勝aspiration, will; victory
Letters
8
Syllables
2
First letter
C
Romanization
Hokkien, Teochew
Character options
3
Category
Chinese Names
Gender
♂ Boy
  • Chinese characters志成志誠志勝
Peak 1970s: 10.6%
of the boy top-10 total
JPN Chinese table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadeboy
1940s–
1950s–
1960s9.3%
1970s10.6%
1980s10.6%
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–

Chinese Names: C

Chee Seng is a Chinese boy's name from Hokkien or Teochew; written 志成, it means 'aspiration; succeed'.

Chinese characters for Chee Seng

This spelling is common in Hokkien and Teochew romanization.

  • 志成

    aspiration, will; succeed, accomplish

    Hokkien chì sêng / Teochew zi3 sêng5

  • 志誠

    aspiration, will; sincere

    Hokkien chì sêng / Teochew zi3 sêng5

  • 志勝

    aspiration, will; victory

    Hokkien chì sèng / Teochew zi3 sêng3

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 Seng

Chee Seng is a Hokkien or Teochew spelling. Chee commonly stands for 志 (aspiration, will), while Seng can be 成 (succeed), 誠 (sincere) or 勝 (victory), read sêng or sèng in Hokkien. According to JPN, it peaked in the 1970s with 1,159 baby boys. The real meaning depends on the characters the family chose.

Gender♂ Boy
RomanizationHokkien, Teochew
PartsChee + Seng
First letterChinese Names starting with C

Chee Seng in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
not in the top 10
1960s
Boy: 827 · 9.3%
1970s
Boy: 1,159 · 10.6%
1980s
Boy: 800 · 10.6%
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Chee Seng 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: 成 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  4. MDBG: 成 · mdbg.net · meaning
  5. Wiktionary: 誠 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  6. MDBG: 誠 · mdbg.net · meaning
  7. Wiktionary: 勝 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  8. MDBG: 勝 · mdbg.net · meaning

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