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Zi Xuan name meaning

  • 子萱child; daylily
  • 紫萱purple; daylily
  • 梓萱catalpa tree; daylily
Letters
6
Syllables
2
First letter
Z
Romanization
Mandarin (pinyin)
Character options
3
Category
Chinese Names
Gender
♀ Girl
  • Chinese characters子萱紫萱梓萱
Peak 2010s: 8.2%
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–
2000s–
2010s8.2%

Chinese Names: Z

Zi Xuan is a Chinese girl's name in pinyin; Xuan is usually 萱 (daylily) and Zi may be 子, 紫 or 梓, depending on the characters.

Chinese characters for Zi Xuan

This spelling is common in Mandarin (pinyin) romanization.

  • 子萱

    child; daylily

    Mandarin zǐ xuān

  • 紫萱

    purple; daylily

    Mandarin zǐ xuān

  • 梓萱

    catalpa tree; daylily

    Mandarin zǐ 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 Zi Xuan

Zi Xuan is a Mandarin pinyin spelling. Zi may stand for 子 (child), 紫 (purple) or 梓 (catalpa tree), while Xuan is usually 萱 (daylily), an older word that also meant mother. According to JPN it peaked in the 2010s with 905 baby girls. The meaning depends on the characters chosen.

Gender♀ Girl
RomanizationMandarin (pinyin)
PartsZi + Xuan
First letterChinese Names starting with Z

Zi 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
not in the top 10
2010s
Girl: 905 · 8.2%
People registered with Zi 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: 子 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  2. Wiktionary: 紫 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  3. Wiktionary: 梓 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  4. Wiktionary: 萱 · en.wiktionary.org · meaning
  5. MDBG: 子 · mdbg.net · meaning
  6. MDBG: 紫 · mdbg.net · meaning
  7. MDBG: 梓 · mdbg.net · meaning
  8. MDBG: 萱 · mdbg.net · meaning

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