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Jia Wen name meaning

  • 嘉雯excellent, good; multicoloured clouds
  • 佳雯good, fine, beautiful; multicoloured clouds
  • 家雯home, family; multicoloured clouds
Letters
6
Syllables
2
First letter
J
Romanization
Mandarin (pinyin)
Character options
4
Gender
♀ Girl
  • Chinese characters嘉雯佳雯家雯嘉文
Peak 1990s: 8.2%
of the girl top-10 total
JPN Chinese table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadegirl
1940s–
1950s–
1960s–
1970s–
1980s–
1990s8.2%
2000s–
2010s–

Chinese Names: J

Jia Wen is a Chinese female given name spelled after Mandarin pronunciation; its meaning depends on the characters chosen, for example 嘉雯 or 佳雯.

Chinese characters for Jia Wen

This spelling is common in Mandarin (pinyin) romanization.

  • 嘉雯

    excellent, good; multicoloured clouds

    Mandarin jiā wén

  • 佳雯

    good, fine, beautiful; multicoloured clouds

    Mandarin jiā wén

  • 家雯

    home, family; multicoloured clouds

    Mandarin jiā wén

  • 嘉文

    excellent, good; writing, literature

    Mandarin jiā wén

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 Jia Wen

Jia Wen is a spelling of a Chinese name based on Mandarin pronunciation. Jia can be written 嘉 (excellent, good), 佳 (good, fine, beautiful) or 家 (home, family); Wen can be written 雯 (multicoloured clouds) or 文 (writing, literature). Example character combinations are 嘉雯, 佳雯, 家雯 or 嘉文, but the same spelling can stand for other characters, so the meaning depends on the characters the family chose. According to JPN, the name peaked in the 1990s with 827 girls.

Gender♀ Girl
RomanizationMandarin (pinyin)
PartsJia + Wen
First letterChinese Names starting with J

Jia Wen 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
not in the top 10
1990s
Girl: 827 · 8.2%
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Jia Wen 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: 嘉 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. Wiktionary: 雯 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  3. Wiktionary: 佳 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  4. Wiktionary: 家 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  5. Wiktionary: 文 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning

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