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Kong Choy name meaning

  • 广才broad, wide; talent, ability
  • 康財healthy, peaceful; wealth
  • 光才light; talent, ability
Letters
8
Syllables
2
First letter
K
Romanization
Hakka
Character options
3
Gender
♂ Boy
  • Chinese characters广才康財光才
1

records of Malaysian citizens on Wikidata carry the name Kong Choy

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Chinese Names: K

Kong Choy is a Chinese boy's name from Hakka pronunciation; one character option is 广才, meaning 'broad; talent'.

Chinese characters for Kong Choy

This spelling is common in Hakka romanization.

  • 广才

    broad, wide; talent, ability

    Hakka kóng chhòi / Mandarin guǎng cái

    attested

  • 康財

    healthy, peaceful; wealth

    Hakka không chhòi / Mandarin kāng cái

  • 光才

    light; talent, ability

    Hakka kông chhòi / Mandarin guāng cái

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 Kong Choy

Kong Choy is a two-syllable Chinese given name whose spelling matches Hakka pronunciation. Kong can be 廣/广 'broad' (Hakka kóng), 康 'healthy, peaceful' (không) or 光 'light' (kông), while Choy usually stands for 才 'talent' or 財 'wealth' (Hakka chhòi). The characters 广才 are recorded for Malaysians with this spelling. The actual meaning depends on the characters the family chose.

Gender♂ Boy
RomanizationHakka
PartsKong + Choy
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: 廣 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. Wiktionary: 才 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  3. Wiktionary: 康 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  4. Wiktionary: 財 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  5. Wiktionary: 光 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning

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