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Siew Chin name meaning

  • 秀珍elegant, outstanding; precious, treasure
  • 秀真elegant, outstanding; true, genuine
Letters
8
Syllables
2
First letter
S
Romanization
Hokkien, Hakka
Character options
2
Category
Chinese Names
Gender
♀ Girl
  • Chinese characters秀珍秀真
Peak 1960s: 12%
of the girl top-10 total
JPN Chinese table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadegirl
1940s–
1950s–
1960s12%
1970s8.3%
1980s–
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–

Chinese Names: S

Siew Chin is a Chinese female given name spelled after Hokkien and Hakka pronunciation; its meaning depends on the characters chosen, for example 秀珍 or 秀真.

Chinese characters for Siew Chin

This spelling is common in Hokkien and Hakka romanization.

  • 秀珍

    elegant, outstanding; precious, treasure

    Hokkien siù chin / Hakka siu chṳ̂n / Mandarin xiù zhēn

  • 秀真

    elegant, outstanding; true, genuine

    Hokkien siù chin / Hakka siu chṳ̂n / Mandarin xiù zhēn

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 Siew Chin

Siew Chin is a spelling of a Chinese name based on Hokkien and Hakka pronunciation. Siew can be written 秀 (elegant, outstanding); Chin can be written 珍 (precious, treasure) or 真 (true, genuine). Siew matches 秀 (Hokkien siù, Hakka siu), while Chin matches Hokkien chin or Hakka chṳ̂n. Example character combinations are 秀珍 or 秀真, 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 1,127 girls.

Gender♀ Girl
RomanizationHokkien, Hakka
PartsSiew + Chin
First letterChinese Names starting with S

Siew Chin in official JPN data

1940s
not in the top 10
1950s
not in the top 10
1960s
Girl: 1,127 · 12%
1970s
Girl: 831 · 8.3%
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 Siew Chin 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: 秀 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. Wiktionary: 珍 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  3. Wiktionary: 真 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning

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