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Chee Wei name meaning

  • 志偉aspiration, will; great
  • 智偉wisdom; great
  • 志威aspiration, will; power, prestige
Letters
7
Syllables
2
First letter
C
Romanization
Hokkien, Cantonese
Character options
3
Category
Chinese Names
Gender
♂ Boy
  • Chinese characters志偉智偉志威
Peak 1980s: 11.8%
of the boy top-10 total
JPN Chinese table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadeboy
1940s–
1950s–
1960s–
1970s–
1980s11.8%
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–

Chinese Names: C

Chee Wei is a Chinese boy's name mixing dialect and Mandarin spellings; written 志偉, it means 'aspiration; great'.

Chinese characters for Chee Wei

This spelling is common in Hokkien and Cantonese romanization.

  • 志偉

    aspiration, will; great

    Hokkien chì / Cantonese zi3 (Chee) + Mandarin wěi (Wei)

  • 智偉

    wisdom; great

    Cantonese zi3 (Chee) + Mandarin wěi (Wei)

  • 志威

    aspiration, will; power, prestige

    Hokkien chì / Cantonese zi3 (Chee) + Mandarin wēi (Wei)

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 Wei

Chee Wei mixes two spelling habits: Chee follows a dialect reading of 志 (Hokkien chì, Cantonese zi3) or 智 (Cantonese zi3), while Wei follows the Mandarin reading of 偉 (wěi, great) or 威 (wēi, power). According to JPN, it peaked in the 1980s with 892 baby boys. The real meaning depends on the characters the family chose.

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

Chee Wei in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
not in the top 10
1960s
not in the top 10
1970s
not in the top 10
1980s
Boy: 892 · 11.8%
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Chee Wei 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: 偉 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  4. MDBG: 偉 · mdbg.net · meaning
  5. Wiktionary: 智 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  6. MDBG: 智 · mdbg.net · meaning
  7. Wiktionary: 威 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  8. MDBG: 威 · mdbg.net · meaning

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