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Mei Yee name meaning

  • 美儀beautiful; ceremony, appearance
  • 美怡beautiful; cheerful, happy
  • 美宜beautiful; appropriate, suitable
Letters
6
Syllables
2
First letter
M
Romanization
Cantonese
Character options
4
Category
Chinese Names
Gender
♀ Girl
  • Chinese characters美儀美怡美宜美兒
Peak 1980s: 7.8%
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–
1980s7.8%
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–

Chinese Names: M

Mei Yee is a Chinese female given name spelled after Cantonese pronunciation; its meaning depends on the characters chosen, for example 美儀 or 美怡.

Chinese characters for Mei Yee

This spelling is common in Cantonese romanization.

  • 美儀

    beautiful; ceremony, appearance

    Cantonese mei5 ji4 / Mandarin měi yí

  • 美怡

    beautiful; cheerful, happy

    Cantonese mei5 ji4 / Mandarin měi yí

  • 美宜

    beautiful; appropriate, suitable

    Cantonese mei5 ji4 / Mandarin měi yí

  • 美兒

    beautiful; child

    Cantonese mei5 ji4 / Mandarin měi ér

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 Yee

Mei Yee is a spelling of a Chinese name based on Cantonese pronunciation. Mei can be written 美 (beautiful); Yee can be written 儀 (ceremony, appearance), 怡 (cheerful, happy), 宜 (appropriate, suitable) or 兒 (child). Example character combinations are 美儀, 美怡, 美宜 or 美兒, 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 1980s with 590 girls.

Gender♀ Girl
RomanizationCantonese
PartsMei + Yee
First letterChinese Names starting with M

Mei Yee 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
Girl: 590 · 7.8%
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Mei Yee 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: 美 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. Wiktionary: 儀 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  3. Wiktionary: 怡 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  4. Wiktionary: 宜 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  5. Wiktionary: 兒 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning

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