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Mei Fun name meaning

美芬beautiful; fragrant
薇芬royal fern; fragrant
美歡beautiful; happy

Letters: 6
Syllables: 2
First letter: M
Romanization: Cantonese
Character options: 3
Category: Chinese Names
Gender: ♀ Girl

Chinese characters美芬薇芬美歡

records of Malaysian citizens on Wikidata carry the name Mei Fun

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Mei Fun is a Chinese girl's name from Cantonese pronunciation; its meaning depends on the characters, for example 美芬 (beautiful; fragrant).

Chinese characters for Mei Fun

This spelling is common in Cantonese romanization.

美芬

beautiful; fragrant

Cantonese mei5 fan1

attested
薇芬

royal fern; fragrant

Cantonese mei4 fan1
美歡

beautiful; happy

Cantonese mei5 fun1

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 Mei Fun

Mei Fun is a two-syllable Chinese given name whose spelling matches Cantonese pronunciation. Mei stands for 美 (beautiful, mei5) or 薇 (mei4), while Fun stands for 芬 (fragrant, fan1), following the Malaysian habit of writing this Cantonese vowel with u, or 歡 (happy, fun1). The characters 美芬 are recorded for this spelling in Malaysia. The actual meaning depends on the characters the family chose.

Gender	♀ Girl
Romanization	Cantonese
Parts	Mei + Fun
First letter	Chinese Names starting with M

Character pages

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

Sources

Wiktionary: 美 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
Wiktionary: 芬 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
Wiktionary: 薇 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
Wiktionary: 歡 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning

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