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Chinese name syllable

Syllable Kit

  • 吉auspicious, lucky; good
  • 杰outstanding, remarkable; hero
  • 潔clean; pure; honest
Letters
3
Syllables
1
First letter
K
Romanization
Cantonese, Hakka
Character options
3
Category
Chinese syllable
  • Chinese characters吉杰潔
2

records of Malaysian citizens on Wikidata have the syllable Kit in their name

A count of Wikidata records, not of the population.

Kit is a Chinese name syllable from Cantonese, Hakka or Hokkien, for example 吉 (lucky) or 杰 (outstanding); the meaning depends on the characters chosen.

Possible characters for Kit

This spelling is common in Cantonese, Hakka and Hokkien romanization.

  • 吉

    auspicious, lucky; good

    Hakka kit / Hokkien kit (Xiamen, Zhangzhou) / Mandarin jí

    attested

  • 杰

    outstanding, remarkable; hero

    Cantonese git6 / Mandarin jié (bentuk simplified 傑)

    attested

  • 潔

    clean; pure; honest

    Cantonese git3 / Mandarin jié

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

Kit is a syllable in Chinese Malaysian names that matches the Cantonese reading git and the Hakka and Hokkien reading kit. One spelling can stand for several characters, so the meaning depends on the characters the family chose. Common options are 吉 (lucky), 杰 (outstanding, hero) and 潔 (clean, pure). The characters 吉 and 杰 are recorded for Malaysians with this spelling.

RomanizationCantonese, Hakka, Hokkien

Kit in the JPN ‘Cina’ tables

Peak era
1980s
Share (boy)
8%
JPN entries
1
  • Boy 1980s · 8%

Entries containing this syllable: Wai Kit 1980s ♂ 591

Share of each decade’s top-10 total for that sex; names outside the tables have no figure. Chinese naming eras · 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.

Chinese names with the syllable Kit

Sources

  1. Wiktionary: 吉 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. Wiktionary: 杰 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  3. Wiktionary: 傑 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  4. Wiktionary: 潔 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  5. MDBG: 吉 · mdbg.net · meaning
  6. MDBG: 杰 · mdbg.net · meaning
  7. MDBG: 傑 · mdbg.net · meaning
  8. MDBG: 潔 · mdbg.net · meaning

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