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Yi Xuan name meaning

  • 怡萱cheerful, joyous; daylily; mother (literary)
  • 怡軒cheerful, joyous; high, lofty; veranda with windows
  • 儀萱ceremony; appearance; daylily; mother (literary)
Letters
6
Syllables
2
First letter
Y
Romanization
Mandarin (pinyin)
Character options
3
Category
Chinese Names
Gender
♀ Girl
  • Chinese characters怡萱怡軒儀萱
Peak 2010s: 9.2%
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–
1980s–
1990s–
2000s8%
2010s9.2%

Chinese Names: Y

Yi Xuan is a Chinese girl's name in Mandarin pinyin, for example 怡萱, 'cheerful; daylily', depending on the characters chosen.

Chinese characters for Yi Xuan

This spelling is common in Mandarin (pinyin) romanization.

  • 怡萱

    cheerful, joyous; daylily; mother (literary)

    Mandarin yí xuān

  • 怡軒

    cheerful, joyous; high, lofty; veranda with windows

    Mandarin yí xuān

  • 儀萱

    ceremony; appearance; daylily; mother (literary)

    Mandarin yí xuān

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 Yi Xuan

Yi Xuan is a Chinese girl's name in Hanyu Pinyin, the Mandarin romanization. Yi usually stands for 怡 (cheerful) or 儀 (appearance), while Xuan can be 萱 (daylily) or 軒 (lofty). According to JPN, it peaked in the 2000s with 1,169 baby girls. The actual meaning depends on the characters the family chose.

Gender♀ Girl
RomanizationMandarin (pinyin)
PartsYi + Xuan
First letterChinese Names starting with Y

Yi Xuan 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
not in the top 10
2000s
Girl: 1,169 · 8%
2010s
Girl: 1,008 · 9.2%
People registered with Yi Xuan 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: 怡 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. MDBG: 怡 · mdbg.net · meaning
  3. Wiktionary: 萱 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  4. MDBG: 萱 · mdbg.net · meaning
  5. Wiktionary: 軒 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  6. MDBG: 軒 · mdbg.net · meaning
  7. Wiktionary: 儀 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  8. MDBG: 儀 · mdbg.net · meaning

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