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Wei Jie name meaning

  • 炜杰glowing, bright; hero, outstanding
  • 偉傑great, extraordinary; hero, outstanding
Letters
6
Syllables
2
First letter
W
Romanization
Mandarin (pinyin)
Character options
2
Category
Chinese Names
Gender
♂ Boy
  • Chinese characters炜杰偉傑
Peak 1990s: 8.4%
of the boy top-10 total
JPN Chinese table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadeboy
1940s–
1950s–
1960s–
1970s–
1980s–
1990s8.4%
2000s–
2010s–
1

records of Malaysian citizens on Wikidata carry the name Wei Jie

A count of Wikidata records, not of the population.

Chinese Names: W

Wei Jie is a Chinese boy's name from Mandarin; 炜杰 means 'glowing; hero, outstanding' and 偉傑 means 'great; hero'.

Chinese characters for Wei Jie

This spelling is common in Mandarin (pinyin) romanization.

  • 炜杰

    glowing, bright; hero, outstanding

    Mandarin wěi jié

    attested

  • 偉傑

    great, extraordinary; hero, outstanding

    Mandarin wěi jié

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 Wei Jie

Wei Jie is a Chinese boy's name in Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin. Wei can stand for 炜/煒 (wěi, 'glowing') or 偉 (wěi, 'great'), and Jie is usually 杰/傑 (jié, 'hero; outstanding'). The characters 炜杰 are recorded for Malaysians with this spelling. According to JPN, the name was given to 800 baby boys in the 1990s. The actual meaning depends on the characters the family chose.

Gender♂ Boy
RomanizationMandarin (pinyin)
PartsWei + Jie
First letterChinese Names starting with W

Wei Jie 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
not in the top 10
1990s
Boy: 800 · 8.4%
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Wei Jie 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: 煒 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. Wiktionary: 傑 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  3. Wiktionary: 偉 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  4. MDBG: 炜 · mdbg.net · meaning
  5. MDBG: 杰 · mdbg.net · meaning

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