Chinese Names · Girl
Ee Wah name meaning
- 怡华cheerful, joyous; splendid, radiant
- 依華to lean on, rely on; splendid, radiant
- Letters
- 5
- Syllables
- 2●●
- First letter
- E
- Romanization
- Hokkien, Cantonese
- Character options
- 2
- Category
- Chinese Names
- Gender
- ♀ Girl
- Chinese characters怡华依華
records of Malaysian citizens on Wikidata carry the name Ee Wah
A count of Wikidata records, not of the population.Ee Wah is a Chinese girl's name; written 怡华 it means 'cheerful; splendid', but the meaning depends on the characters chosen.
Chinese characters for Ee Wah
This spelling is common in Hokkien and Cantonese romanization.
- 怡华
cheerful, joyous; splendid, radiant
Hokkien î + Cantonese waa4 / Mandarin yí huá
attested
- 依華
to lean on, rely on; splendid, radiant
Hokkien i + Cantonese waa4 / Mandarin yī huá
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 Ee Wah
Ee Wah is a girl's name that combines a Hokkien and a Cantonese spelling, which is common in Malaysian Chinese names. Ee is Hokkien î or i, as in 怡 (cheerful) or 依, and Wah is the Cantonese reading waa4 of 華/华 (splendid, radiant). The characters 怡华 are recorded for Malaysians with this spelling. The actual meaning depends on the characters the family chose.
Character pages
Each page shows the character’s recorded meanings, dialect readings and every Malaysian spelling.
Sources
- Wiktionary: 怡 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
- Wiktionary: 華 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
- Wiktionary: 依 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
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