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Zedong name meaning

  • 澤東pool, favour, beneficence; east
  • 澤棟pool, favour, beneficence; ridgepole, pillar
Letters
6
First letter
Z
Romanization
Mandarin (pinyin)
Character options
2
Gender
♂ Boy
  • Chinese characters澤東澤棟

Chinese Names: Z

Zedong is a Mandarin pinyin name for boys; one way to write it is 澤東, meaning 'pool, favour, beneficence; east'.

Chinese characters for Zedong

This spelling is common in Mandarin (pinyin) romanization.

  • 澤東

    pool, favour, beneficence; east

    Mandarin zé dōng

    attested

  • 澤棟

    pool, favour, beneficence; ridgepole, pillar

    Mandarin zé dòng

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 Zedong

Zedong is a Hanyu Pinyin spelling, the official romanization of Mandarin, written without tone marks; it has two syllables, ze and dong. The characters 澤東 (zé dōng) are recorded for this spelling in public data and mean 'pool, favour, beneficence; east'. Other characters spelled the same way in pinyin include 澤棟 (pool, favour, beneficence; ridgepole, pillar). The actual meaning depends on the characters the family chose.

Gender♂ Boy
RomanizationMandarin (pinyin)
First letterChinese Names starting with Z

Character pages

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

Sources

  1. MDBG: 澤 · mdbg.net · meaning
  2. Wiktionary: 澤 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  3. MDBG: 東 · mdbg.net · meaning
  4. Wiktionary: 東 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  5. MDBG: 棟 · mdbg.net · meaning
  6. Wiktionary: 棟 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning

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