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Kit Siang name meaning

  • 吉祥lucky, auspicious; good luck, good omen
  • 吉翔lucky, auspicious; fly, soar
Letters
8
Syllables
2
First letter
K
Romanization
Hokkien, Teochew
Character options
2
Gender
♂ Boy
  • Chinese characters吉祥吉翔
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records of Malaysian citizens on Wikidata carry the name Kit Siang

A count of Wikidata records, not of the population.

Chinese Names: K

Kit Siang is a Chinese boy's name whose spelling fits Hokkien and Teochew readings; its meaning depends on the characters the family chose.

Chinese characters for Kit Siang

This spelling is common in Hokkien and Teochew romanization.

  • 吉祥

    lucky, auspicious; good luck, good omen

    Hokkien kit (吉) / Teochew siang5 (祥) / Mandarin jí xiáng

    attested

  • 吉翔

    lucky, auspicious; fly, soar

    Hokkien kit siâng (Zhangzhou) / Mandarin jí xiáng

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 Kit Siang

Kit Siang has two syllables. Kit fits 吉 (lucky), read kit in Xiamen and Zhangzhou Hokkien. Siang fits 祥 (good luck) in Teochew siang5, or 翔 (soar) in Zhangzhou Hokkien siâng. The characters 吉祥 are recorded for Malaysians with this spelling. The meaning depends on the characters the family chose.

Gender♂ Boy
RomanizationHokkien, Teochew
PartsKit + Siang
First letterChinese Names starting with K

Character pages

Each page shows the character’s recorded meanings, dialect readings and every Malaysian spelling.

Sources

  1. Wiktionary: 吉 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. MDBG: 吉 · mdbg.net · meaning
  3. Wiktionary: 祥 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  4. MDBG: 祥 · mdbg.net · meaning
  5. Wiktionary: 翔 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  6. MDBG: 翔 · mdbg.net · meaning

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