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Sin Yee name meaning

  • 倩怡beautiful, pretty; cheerful, joyous
  • 倩儀beautiful, pretty; ceremony; appearance
  • 善儀good, kind; ceremony; appearance
Letters
6
Syllables
2
First letter
S
Romanization
Cantonese
Character options
3
Category
Chinese Names
Gender
♀ Girl
  • Chinese characters倩怡倩儀善儀
Peak 1990s: 11%
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–
1980s8%
1990s11%
2000s–
2010s–

Chinese Names: S

Sin Yee is a Chinese girl's name from Cantonese, for example 倩怡, 'pretty; cheerful', depending on the characters chosen.

Chinese characters for Sin Yee

This spelling is common in Cantonese romanization.

  • 倩怡

    beautiful, pretty; cheerful, joyous

    Cantonese sin3 ji4 / Mandarin qiàn yí

  • 倩儀

    beautiful, pretty; ceremony; appearance

    Cantonese sin3 ji4 / Mandarin qiàn yí

  • 善儀

    good, kind; ceremony; appearance

    Cantonese sin6 ji4 / Mandarin shàn yí

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 Sin Yee

Sin Yee is a Chinese girl's name spelled after Cantonese pronunciation. Sin can be 倩 (sin3, pretty) or 善 (sin6, kind), while Yee usually stands for 怡 (ji4, cheerful) or 儀 (ji4, appearance). According to JPN, it peaked in the 1990s with 1,108 baby girls. The actual meaning depends on the characters the family chose.

Gender♀ Girl
RomanizationCantonese
PartsSin + Yee
First letterChinese Names starting with S

Sin 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: 603 · 8%
1990s
Girl: 1,108 · 11%
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Sin 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: 倩 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. MDBG: 倩 · mdbg.net · meaning
  3. Wiktionary: 怡 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  4. MDBG: 怡 · mdbg.net · meaning
  5. Wiktionary: 儀 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  6. MDBG: 儀 · mdbg.net · meaning
  7. Wiktionary: 善 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  8. MDBG: 善 · mdbg.net · meaning

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