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Wai Yee name meaning

  • 慧怡bright, intelligent; cheerful, joyous
  • 慧儀bright, intelligent; ceremony; appearance
  • 惠儀kindness, favour; gentle; ceremony; appearance
Letters
6
Syllables
2
First letter
W
Romanization
Cantonese
Character options
3
Category
Chinese Names
Gender
♀ Girl
  • Chinese characters慧怡慧儀惠儀
Peak 1980s: 7.4%
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–
1980s7.4%
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–

Chinese Names: W

Wai Yee is a Chinese girl's name from Cantonese, for example 慧怡, 'intelligent; cheerful', depending on the characters chosen.

Chinese characters for Wai Yee

This spelling is common in Cantonese romanization.

  • 慧怡

    bright, intelligent; cheerful, joyous

    Cantonese wai6 ji4 / Mandarin huì yí

  • 慧儀

    bright, intelligent; ceremony; appearance

    Cantonese wai6 ji4 / Mandarin huì yí

  • 惠儀

    kindness, favour; gentle; ceremony; appearance

    Cantonese wai6 ji4 / Mandarin huì 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 Wai Yee

Wai Yee is a Chinese girl's name spelled after Cantonese pronunciation. Wai usually stands for 慧 (wai6, intelligent) or 惠 (wai6, kindness), while Yee stands for 怡 (ji4, cheerful) or 儀 (ji4, appearance). According to JPN, it peaked in the 1980s with 559 baby girls. The actual meaning depends on the characters the family chose.

Gender♀ Girl
RomanizationCantonese
PartsWai + Yee
First letterChinese Names starting with W

Wai 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: 559 · 7.4%
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Wai 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: 慧 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. MDBG: 慧 · 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: 惠 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  8. MDBG: 惠 · mdbg.net · meaning

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