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Poh Choo name meaning

  • 寶珠treasure, precious; pearl
  • 寶慈treasure, precious; kind, benevolent
Letters
7
Syllables
1
First letter
P
Romanization
Hokkien, Teochew
Character options
2
Category
Chinese Names
Gender
♀ Girl
  • Chinese characters寶珠寶慈
Peak 1960s: 9.5%
of the girl top-10 total
JPN Chinese table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadegirl
1940s–
1950s–
1960s9.5%
1970s–
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–

Chinese Names: P

Poh Choo is a Chinese female given name spelled after Hokkien and Teochew pronunciation; its meaning depends on the characters chosen, for example 寶珠 or 寶慈.

Chinese characters for Poh Choo

This spelling is common in Hokkien and Teochew romanization.

  • 寶珠

    treasure, precious; pearl

    Hokkien pó chu / Teochew bo2 zu1 / Mandarin bǎo zhū

  • 寶慈

    treasure, precious; kind, benevolent

    Hokkien pó chû / Mandarin bǎo cí

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 Poh Choo

Poh Choo is a spelling of a Chinese name based on Hokkien and Teochew pronunciation. Poh can be written 寶 (treasure, precious); Choo can be written 珠 (pearl) or 慈 (kind, benevolent). The option 寶慈 fits only the Hokkien reading chû of 慈. Example character combinations are 寶珠 or 寶慈, 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 1960s with 898 girls.

Gender♀ Girl
RomanizationHokkien, Teochew
PartsPoh
First letterChinese Names starting with P

Poh Choo in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
not in the top 10
1960s
Girl: 898 · 9.5%
1970s
not in the top 10
1980s
not in the top 10
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Poh Choo 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: 寶 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. Wiktionary: 珠 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  3. Wiktionary: 慈 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning

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