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Xiaoyan name meaning

曉燕dawn; swallow (bird)
小燕small; swallow (bird)
曉妍dawn; beautiful

Letters: 7
First letter: X
Romanization: Mandarin (pinyin)
Character options: 3
Category: Chinese Names
Gender: ♀ Girl

Chinese characters曉燕小燕曉妍

Chinese Names: X

Xiaoyan is a Mandarin pinyin name for girls; one way to write it is 曉燕, meaning 'dawn; swallow (bird)'.

Chinese characters for Xiaoyan

This spelling is common in Mandarin (pinyin) romanization.

曉燕

dawn; swallow (bird)

Mandarin xiǎo yàn

attested
小燕

small; swallow (bird)

Mandarin xiǎo yàn
曉妍

dawn; beautiful

Mandarin xiǎo yán

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 Xiaoyan

Xiaoyan is a Hanyu Pinyin spelling, the official romanization of Mandarin, written without tone marks; it has two syllables, xiao and yan. The characters 曉燕 (xiǎo yàn) are recorded for this spelling in public data and mean 'dawn; swallow (bird)'. Other characters spelled the same way in pinyin include 小燕 (small; swallow (bird)) and 曉妍 (dawn; beautiful). The actual meaning depends on the characters the family chose.

Gender	♀ Girl
Romanization	Mandarin (pinyin)
First letter	Chinese Names starting with X

Character pages

Each page shows the character’s recorded meanings, dialect readings and every Malaysian spelling.

Sources

MDBG: 曉 · mdbg.net · meaning
Wiktionary: 曉 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
MDBG: 燕 · mdbg.net · meaning
Wiktionary: 燕 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
MDBG: 小 · mdbg.net · meaning
Wiktionary: 小 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
MDBG: 妍 · mdbg.net · meaning
Wiktionary: 妍 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning

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Entry ID: mn04018 · Updated 2026-10-25 · How we research names · Report a mistake