I'm a simple gal, I see Luhan in thumbnail I like the video before it even starts. And I should be used to the "but there's no guy in the thumbnail" or "i only saw girls" comments but nope ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I sincerely mean this Mikey, you should make a channel that teaches Chinese. Me, and I think many others here would subscribe to it. With your editing skills and personality, you would make for the greatest Chinese teacher!
Wait till you get to the Chinese names of those who speak different dialects. A good example would be the ethnic Chinese from Malaysia whose ancestors migrated there about a century ago. 陈 Chen (mandarin) is pronounced as chan (Cantonese), tan (hokkien), chin (Hakka) just to name a few.
Learning about Chinese characters while learning kanji in Japanese class gets confusing sometimes because characters look the same but are pronounced completely differently
my mom have a male name because her family wants a boy my dad have a female name because all his siblings and cousins have to have the character Xia, which means female.
I am a Korean having Chinese ancestor(張 is my family name and it's called Jang) as the first ancestor and I always wondered what is common name and naming rule in China because I've never seen anyone has same name with other person. It's almost impossible for me to guess gender in Chinese name except for they use really manly letter but I can understand what you mean. :) Thanks!
JY J common last names are pretty much the big 8. naming is the same as the korean way, naming kids with potential attribute, patriotism, gender specific, and according to the genology book.
Wow this video was quite useful. Believe it or not, I've been told before to look at a character's basic radicals before asking its meaning directly, but have never thought to do so to guess a name's gender. That is definitely something to keep in mind. And of _course_ you are talking about Chinese guys so u have to put Lu Han. I see you, Mike.
I knew someone who's name meant 'steel (metal) flower'. I was doing a sort of penpal thing and they never had specified their gender, I ended up asking at one point what gender they were and they stated that they were gender fluid but born a male when their parents wanted a female
Do those radicals translate when they are names directly translated from other languages, like Vietnamese, Japanese, or Korean names that have direct translations?
true story: I worked as a receptionist for our university's writing center, which a lot of international students frequented. one day I told a student "your tutor is Amy"....she didn't know if it was the male tutor or the female tutor...and that's when I realized...just like I have a really hard time distinguishing asian genders, they have the same struggle with western names. 😊
yes it is a neutral character, some parents also want to give a name to their unborn baby would choose characters like this, because they aren't sure about the baby's gender yet
Were you using traditional characters? I'm just starting to learn Chinese, but I know the character for beauty and I didn't recognize the one you used.
I think mike is the only one who can put so much info in such a ahort video. He is so fast in talking and cant even wait until he fully said "bye" befor the video gets cut and thats the end 😂😂😂
The middle character of 3 character names is the generation character and there is a different one for each generation. The used character is recycled every 12 generations. It had its uses in the old days that, If you meet a person with the same surname and you know the generational names, then you can tell who has more seniority. Its use in mainland China is mostly lost due to the Communism while in Hong Kong it is still very common (probably Taiwan too I suppose).
我是来利 My Chinese name is 来利。My Chinese teacher 金花老師 is the best. :) Also I am sure you can easily tell... I am still learning. I am not even ready for the HSK lvl 1 yet. But I currently know 100 or so characters. Chinese language and culture has always fascinated me.
Sufkopp82 he is a guy lol and he hates being called pretty, he tries to look as masculine as possible I know he doesn't do a very good job at it but he is very talented so if you don't know anything about him check out some of his song
Can a native Mandarin speaker lemme know if 陶朱丽 is a believable name? I'm Vietnamese and 陶 is the character for my surname Đào before our writing system switched over to Latin characters. My first name is Julee so my mandarin professor assigned me 朱丽 for my given name.
Yes, 朱丽 sounds similar to Julee. It's a nice girl name. 朱 means 'red' and 丽 means 'beautiful'. Or 茱莉, more commonly used to translate from western name Julie. There are tons of Chinese characters have the same pronunciation but with totally different meaning though. It's best to ask your parents or grandparents about what your name means by each character.
so you can tell a name if feminim by looking at the components of the symbol. but in English, names sound feminim. do Chinese names sound feminim/masculine? (I don't speak Chinese so I have no idea).
Fate Kyougo Kinda I guess? But you would have to know the language more or less to be able to tell what sounds feminine and what sounds masculine. Chinese is my first language, but please keep in mind that that's just my own opinion.
Diekje it's hard to tell though. women can have masculine names and men can have femnine. people called my mom a Mr and my dad a Mrs because their name is the opposite gender
I know my name it's 康愛嘉. I was adopted from China so I had a Chinese name before my parents had it changed. I still keep the last two parts as my middle name though.
I'm also adopted from China and kept my Chinese name as one of my second names! ^^ My Chinese name is quite uncommon though. (Typical "orphan name" given by orphanages back then I guess... ) It's 陽三秀 [Yang Sanxiu], a beauty related name, which means "elegance/talent".
alphahunterd I am not adopted, but when my aunt made me her god daughter she gave me a new chinese name which she had it counted from a budhist monk. I went from that winter flower name to humble and nobility name.
Ohh same! I’ve been told that everyone in the orphanage I lived in has the same surname, so I don’t know the one my birth parents have. But before my mum changed my name the orphanage named me 金玉泉 [Jin Yuquan] (surname first, first name second) My mum made Yuquan my middle name and my last name is basically dead but she wishes that she hyphenated it though)
My daughter's name's first character is Jīn (金) as in gold/metal and the second is Yù (瑜), which contains the radical for, well, Yù as for Jade. Ha ha... Yeah.
Can anyone tell me if 芮伊 is an alright Chinese girls name? someone suggested it to me because it sounds like rinny (which it does) but they used a lot of smiling emojis so I don't know if it's a bad name
I've met a lot of Chinese women with names that sound kind of masculine. I think part of the reason why might be cultural: for most of Chinese history, the vast majority of Chinese women did not have names (they were simply referred to as the last name of their families). As such, Chinese women having names is a relatively recent thing. This might explain why it's so difficult to tell gender in Chinese names.
When the tips are based on the Chinese characters of the names, they fail to be useful at all since let's say more than 90% of non-Chinese people who actually need to have such tips encounter the Chinese names in the form of Latin letters. It would be only a really useful tip if it distinguishes them phonetically. However, of course this one is rich of our culture and would be quite informative for those who learn Chinese characters.
When they used Luhan as a clickbait. Smart move.
Chogiwant wolf to reach 100 mil views lol ikr
Chogiwant wolf to reach 100 mil views It really works tho 😂
I saw LuHan and hit that play button faster than ever XD
Silverleaf Toshiro me too
i mean hes chinese with a chinese name xD
I don't know why everyone thought that the person on the right side of the thumbnail was a girl. I thought it was pretty obvious that they're a guy.
ilovesparky13 what? The on on the right is a guy? Damn
ilovesparky13 same
luhan?
Hare Crazy yup, his name is Lu Han
ilovesparky13 IKR isn't it so obivous?
I'm a simple gal, I see Luhan in thumbnail I like the video before it even starts. And I should be used to the "but there's no guy in the thumbnail" or "i only saw girls" comments but nope ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Wuris me too
I saw Luhan, I clicked.
I sincerely mean this Mikey, you should make a channel that teaches Chinese. Me, and I think many others here would subscribe to it. With your editing skills and personality, you would make for the greatest Chinese teacher!
Thank you Mike! This was very useful information. This will certainly be useful in the future :)
Sees luhan... *clicks video*
That moment when half the views are from kpop people XD....any EXO fans here?
Annie 🙌🙌🙌🙌
Annie yep
me
Over here!
Wait till you get to the Chinese names of those who speak different dialects. A good example would be the ethnic Chinese from Malaysia whose ancestors migrated there about a century ago. 陈 Chen (mandarin) is pronounced as chan (Cantonese), tan (hokkien), chin (Hakka) just to name a few.
+The Chen Dynasty -- Mike, THANK YOU for this introductory guide in learning Chinese names. This was a good presentation.
Learning about Chinese characters while learning kanji in Japanese class gets confusing sometimes because characters look the same but are pronounced completely differently
Brianna771 because japanese kanji promounce from different chinese dynasty
Some chinese dialects have similar pronunciation to Japanese. I think it was Wenzhou dialect that sounded like Japanese.
Brianna771 Finally a comment unrelated to LuHan 😂
I was going to watch anyway but that Luhan thumbnail just made it more urgent.
i haven't seen the rest of the video but i saw luhan so i clicked immediately XD
KatSon or never same
my mom have a male name because her family wants a boy
my dad have a female name because all his siblings and cousins have to have the character Xia, which means female.
Snow Pearl somtimes male with female name
Xia means female? that's new I thought Nu is (sarcasm)
Omg. I have left subtitles on and it says "Hello my name is my chip" instead of Mike Chan. xD xD xD
LUHAN IS MANLY VERY MANLY 🗣️🗣️
In Japanese, when 子 (ko) is placed at the end of a name, it's almost always a girl's name which surprised me when i saw this. Good video btw!
This was really interesting, I am glad that more recently all attributes are being considered for both genders.
I'm a simple woman, I see Luhan, I click
I am a Korean having Chinese ancestor(張 is my family name and it's called Jang) as the first ancestor and I always wondered what is common name and naming rule in China because I've never seen anyone has same name with other person. It's almost impossible for me to guess gender in Chinese name except for they use really manly letter but I can understand what you mean. :) Thanks!
JY J actually, I've seen people with the same chinese names. my name is WanTing. There's a lot of wantings out there.
Snow Pearl Ah I see. Wow Wan Ting sounds like Wanting :)
JY J common last names are pretty much the big 8. naming is the same as the korean way, naming kids with potential attribute, patriotism, gender specific, and according to the genology book.
I don't see a male in the thumbnail.
PeeZzz the person at right is a guy
Yueqi Wang , he doesn't look very masculine, but I figured he was the guy. He must be very young.
He's 26 (though 27 in about two months)
his name is "Luhan", you can go look it up
well the typical pretty boy these days
The woman in the thumbnail is Uee right?? Im 100% sure that she is Korean NOT chinese
This was very useful!! Thanks! I'm probably the only one who didnt come for Luhan (whodat). :P
Can I just pay you to do a dedicated video series where you teach all things Mandarin?
Today you uploaded this video on my mom's 60th birthday, and in this video you mentioned all three characters of my mom's name. Thanks 😆
Wow this video was quite useful. Believe it or not, I've been told before to look at a character's basic radicals before asking its meaning directly, but have never thought to do so to guess a name's gender. That is definitely something to keep in mind. And of _course_ you are talking about Chinese guys so u have to put Lu Han. I see you, Mike.
Omg I see Luhan 😂💖
I knew someone who's name meant 'steel (metal) flower'. I was doing a sort of penpal thing and they never had specified their gender, I ended up asking at one point what gender they were and they stated that they were gender fluid but born a male when their parents wanted a female
Do those radicals translate when they are names directly translated from other languages, like Vietnamese, Japanese, or Korean names that have direct translations?
can't believe I just found your channel, I love your videos! :D
true story: I worked as a receptionist for our university's writing center, which a lot of international students frequented. one day I told a student "your tutor is Amy"....she didn't know if it was the male tutor or the female tutor...and that's when I realized...just like I have a really hard time distinguishing asian genders, they have the same struggle with western names. 😊
I've found out the reason I'm failing at mandarin class. I only understood two of the characters you mentioned and I've probably learned most of them.
Jackie Chan is that you?
Yay! Thank you for posting!!! :)
In Taiwan, plenty of men have the character 安 in their name.
Joseph Bergeron my grandpa does but he's from szechuan chongqing. all 11 of his siblings have to have the word 安 in their names
Joseph Bergeron this is actually a neutral character, parents who named their kids with 安 in it, just want kids to be safe.
yes it is a neutral character, some parents also want to give a name to their unborn baby would choose characters like this, because they aren't sure about the baby's gender yet
Could you please help me? Is 安德森 a male name? I'm thinking about changing it to 安德肋，what do you guys think?
LUHAN
Were you using traditional characters? I'm just starting to learn Chinese, but I know the character for beauty and I didn't recognize the one you used.
great video !!! You should do more videos like this !!!!
did you just assume my gender
LUHANNNNNNNNNNNNNN I WAS GONNA WATCH THIS ANYWAY BUT THIS MADE ME WANNA WATCH IT MOREEEEEE OMGGGG
Never clicked so fast seeing Luhan in the thumbnail 😂
Hey how did you get mike as a name? I feel that Shane would have been better from Xing
I think mike is the only one who can put so much info in such a ahort video. He is so fast in talking and cant even wait until he fully said "bye" befor the video gets cut and thats the end 😂😂😂
Why is every comment about Luhan. Who is he/she?
Marc Ritz he's a popular chinese actor/singer.
That's true that when you speak to a person it's the same pronunciation. But if ur emailing someone then it's different.
The middle character of 3 character names is the generation character and there is a different one for each generation. The used character is recycled every 12 generations. It had its uses in the old days that, If you meet a person with the same surname and you know the generational names, then you can tell who has more seniority. Its use in mainland China is mostly lost due to the Communism while in Hong Kong it is still very common (probably Taiwan too I suppose).
I'm a simple person, I see Luhan and I click 😂👌🏻
This is all valid but when the names are spelt out in the Roman alphabet sometimes it's impossible to distinguish the genders
Oh I love luhan
我是来利
My Chinese name is 来利。My Chinese teacher 金花老師 is the best. :) Also I am sure you can easily tell... I am still learning. I am not even ready for the HSK lvl 1 yet. But I currently know 100 or so characters. Chinese language and culture has always fascinated me.
It used to be very simple in the old days when Chinese names were romanized into three parts, not now. there are to many Xs and Zs in the names
That LuHan Thumbnail!!!
So understanding Qi and the Bagua even applies to this.
I know that some Asian men look a bit on the feminine side but damn I want to see the birth certificate before I belief that is a guy.
Trust me, he's a guy, that's just how his face was made. He's going to be 27 this year
I know :)
haha
Lol. It's hilarious because Luhan HATES being called pretty.
Sufkopp82 he is a guy lol and he hates being called pretty, he tries to look as masculine as possible I know he doesn't do a very good job at it but he is very talented so if you don't know anything about him check out some of his song
Is that Luhan and Uee in the thumbnail? xD
No, the one on the thumbnail is zheng shuang.
I just saw your science channel!!
Note to self... Chinese is damn hard. . . Do not attempt! I'm absolutely confuddled after that
What if you don't know the characters? My name is Vay Gwee in our dialect.
What dialect is that? Also you can ask your parents if they know it
.... I thought both people in thumbnail were girls... oh gosh... why.
Mami Burger - I totally agree with you!
Mami Burger technically one is a female and the other choses to identify himself as the "other"
Cheryl lin no he doesn't lmao he considers himself a male stop making things up
Stephanie :3 Uhm I never said he doesn't consider himself a male. If you read my comment, I just said that I agree with the 1st post.
Ahhhh sorry! I must have clicked the wrong button again (This always happens). Sorry for the inconveniences! I meant to reply to the other person.
when your name is 子薇 lmao when i was little all my teachers would write it as 紫薇 partly bc of the tv character as well
Michelle Zhao good name
you should do a video on similarities and differences between Indians and East Asian countries like China.
Can a native Mandarin speaker lemme know if 陶朱丽 is a believable name?
I'm Vietnamese and 陶 is the character for my surname Đào before our writing system switched over to Latin characters. My first name is Julee so my mandarin professor assigned me 朱丽 for my given name.
Yes, 朱丽 sounds similar to Julee. It's a nice girl name. 朱 means 'red' and 丽 means 'beautiful'. Or 茱莉, more commonly used to translate from western name Julie. There are tons of Chinese characters have the same pronunciation but with totally different meaning though. It's best to ask your parents or grandparents about what your name means by each character.
A masculine radical in my Chinese name was included. It works, thanks :)
Funny how 子 is used for male names in Chinese whereas it is used for female names in Japanese.
It can be a girl name too. It can also mean "Child".
so you can tell a name if feminim by looking at the components of the symbol.
but in English, names sound feminim. do Chinese names sound feminim/masculine?
(I don't speak Chinese so I have no idea).
Fate Kyougo Kinda I guess? But you would have to know the language more or less to be able to tell what sounds feminine and what sounds masculine.
Chinese is my first language, but please keep in mind that that's just my own opinion.
Fate Kyougo you can tell the name, but not the person. because my mom have a boy's name. and my dad have a girl's name.
I actually never expected Chinese names having gender associated characteristics
Diekje it's hard to tell though. women can have masculine names and men can have femnine. people called my mom a Mr and my dad a Mrs because their name is the opposite gender
I know my name it's 康愛嘉. I was adopted from China so I had a Chinese name before my parents had it changed. I still keep the last two parts as my middle name though.
alphahunterd it's a nice name ：）
I'm also adopted from China and kept my Chinese name as one of my second names! ^^ My Chinese name is quite uncommon though. (Typical "orphan name" given by orphanages back then I guess... ) It's 陽三秀 [Yang Sanxiu], a beauty related name, which means "elegance/talent".
alphahunterd I am not adopted, but when my aunt made me her god daughter she gave me a new chinese name which she had it counted from a budhist monk. I went from that winter flower name to humble and nobility name.
Ohh same! I’ve been told that everyone in the orphanage I lived in has the same surname, so I don’t know the one my birth parents have. But before my mum changed my name the orphanage named me 金玉泉 [Jin Yuquan] (surname first, first name second) My mum made Yuquan my middle name and my last name is basically dead but she wishes that she hyphenated it though)
My daughter's name's first character is Jīn (金) as in gold/metal and the second is Yù (瑜), which contains the radical for, well, Yù as for Jade. Ha ha... Yeah.
Can anyone tell me if 芮伊 is an alright Chinese girls name? someone suggested it to me because it sounds like rinny (which it does) but they used a lot of smiling emojis so I don't know if it's a bad name
I've met a lot of Chinese women with names that sound kind of masculine. I think part of the reason why might be cultural: for most of Chinese history, the vast majority of Chinese women did not have names (they were simply referred to as the last name of their families). As such, Chinese women having names is a relatively recent thing. This might explain why it's so difficult to tell gender in Chinese names.
They did have names though
guyklc my mom have a boy's name because her family wants a son
Snow Pearl Ah, yes, that's another reason. My dad said his female high school teacher in Taiwan had the name, 夢男. I really feel bad for her.
I just remembered when my Taiwanese teacher laughed because my name was apparently a "guy's name" =-=
Chen dynasty did u born in your own country or foreign countries?
so helpful
YEET LUHAN IN THE THUMBNAIL NEVER CLICKED SO FAST LMAO
When the woman on the thumbnail isnt even Chinese xD Love her tho
Who is she?
@@user-uv6if1jb4f her name is zheng shuang and she is chinese
what about 伟萱？？？？？？guest what I'm transcended but my Chinese name is male so I'm trans male 11 .....
I see Luhan, I click.
lol, I'm a girl, but yet I have a masculine name 俐夷 apparently. I had always thought that my name wasn't suitable for me and this just confirms it :p
Dear Mike, UEE is a Korean singer and model. She's not Chinese:))
Love Hanyu anyway:D
roses are red
violets are blue
I came for the thumbnail
and so did you
I see Lu Han, I click.
you can be a professor in Chinese language you still can't figure out my gender base on mu name
Hey, Mr Chen, your shirt is little bit tight.
When the tips are based on the Chinese characters of the names, they fail to be useful at all since let's say more than 90% of non-Chinese people who actually need to have such tips encounter the Chinese names in the form of Latin letters. It would be only a really useful tip if it distinguishes them phonetically.
However, of course this one is rich of our culture and would be quite informative for those who learn Chinese characters.
I'm so radically confused...
no guy is called Kelly
Sure. Kelly Slater... the popular surfer.
lonelyplanet79 touché
I usually go by how the name sounds: girls names often have 'yi' 'jin' 'jun' 'ting' 'ping' 'yin' 'ling' or other cute sounding characters in them.
Joseph Bergeron I just found all of these cute sounding characters in names of my male friends in 1 minute 😂😂😂
Too many characters have the same pronunciation but different gender
3:32 i know this letter... its Tzu right? i know this because of Chou tzuyu lol
Wow no one is talking about the attractive girl on the front
OMG Luhan!!😻😻😻
it would be really helpful if you could use pinyin alongside chinese words!!
You have a "Jackie Chan" type look :)
My wife's name is 宏梅, a "masculine" character followed by a wood radical. I guess they wanted a boy?
蔡爱雪 that's my name in Chinese, my dad came up with that name when I was born.
While everybody is talking about Luhan and I don't know him, here I am clicking on this video because of Zheng Shuang
lol for chinese "girl names" the pic is Uee from After School, and shes korean;P haha
and yes i clicked cause i saw Luhan on the thumbnail
why do I feel like luhan is there because most westerner who wouldn't know would think he's a girl
Shirt so tight mikey
Wow! 😳 Thank you
Luhannnnnn