20 inspirational names for a super summer!
List summary: 新夏、夏向、夏涼、夏艷/夏艶、琉夏、夏樂、夏怡、夏悅、夏嬉、夏歡/夏懽、梨夏、夏梅、夏蓮、莽夏、青夏、勇夏、承夏、平夏、峰夏、and 夏緒！ (Keep reading ’til the end to discover their meanings, readings, pronunciations, guide to etymology and history, and more linguistic knowledge!)
Is it just me or has this summer been unnervingly chilling for us tropical islanders? 🌞🥶
Check out this summer-inspired name bank I’ve been working on for the past 5 months!
→ meticulously hand-picked like exotic cherries 🍒
→ carefully translated to the best of my ability 🉑
→ and then packed with a mini beginner’s guide to 夏 (the Han character/Chinese character for “summer”, used throughout the Sinosphere) 📖
→ which contains its standard readings in many languages: Mandarin Chinese, Dungan Tili, Cantonese, Hakka, Hokkien, Wu, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese! 🀄
(If you need info on any other topolect, dialect, or time-specific variant not mentioned here, just ask away! I’ll see what I can do for ya!)
👉🏼 An incredibly versatile character, it’s impossible to run out of given names containing/based on 夏!
The possibilities are endless, and the only limit is our imagination! 💡
👉🏼 If we visit the Wiktionary entry for 夏, we’ll see a whole lot more linguistic variants & historical hypotheses on this ancient grapheme dating back to 2070 BC, and even a reconstruction of its Middle Chinese & Old Chinese pronunciations based on recovered millennia-old scripts! 😱
👇🏼 Comment “Wiktionary” and I’ll send you the link to read further. It’s very interesting to read, whether you’re a curious beginner or a veteran Sinologist.
❓ QOTD 1: Which name stood out to you in particular? 🤔
❓ QOTD 2: Do you know what the difference is between “reading” and “pronunciation”? 🗣️
👇🏼 Also also also, let me know what you think of this list! 📜
Is it interesting enough? Are the tables mathematical enough? Are my font choices weird enough? Have I managed to convince you that I’m secretly an omniscient Taoist immortal from the 16th century BCE here to steal all the trees off your backyards, or should I try harder? If so, what other attempts at floor-length grocery lists should I make to satisfy your most honourable expectations?
Remember—your plants are at stake here! 🧚🏼♀️🌲🌳🌴
