Chinese Names · Boy
Pay Hen name meaning
- 培兴to cultivate, foster; to thrive, flourish
- Letters
- 6
- Syllables
- 2●●
- First letter
- P
- Romanization
- Hokkien
- Character options
- 1
- Category
- Chinese Names
- Gender
- ♂ Boy
- Chinese characters培兴
records of Malaysian citizens on Wikidata carry the name Pay Hen
A count of Wikidata records, not of the population.Pay Hen is a Chinese boy's name from Hokkien; the characters 培兴 mean 'to cultivate; to flourish'.
Chinese characters for Pay Hen
This spelling is common in Hokkien romanization.
- 培兴
to cultivate, foster; to thrive, flourish
Hokkien pôe heng / Mandarin péi xīng
attested
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 Pay Hen
Pay Hen is a Chinese Malaysian boy's name closest to Hokkien pronunciation. The characters recorded for this spelling in public data are 培兴: 培 (Hokkien pôe) means 'to cultivate, foster' and 兴 (Hokkien heng) means 'to thrive, flourish'; the spelling Hen is a shortened form of the sound heng. The real meaning depends on the characters the family chose, since one spelling can stand for many characters.
| Gender | ♂ Boy |
|---|---|
| Romanization | Hokkien |
| Parts | Pay + Hen |
| First letter | Chinese Names starting with P |
Character pages
Each page shows the character’s recorded meanings, dialect readings and every Malaysian spelling.
Sources
- Wiktionary: 培 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
- MDBG: 培 · mdbg.net · meaning
- Wiktionary: 興 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
- MDBG: 兴 · mdbg.net · meaning
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