Chinese parents have lots of imagination and creativity when coming to find a good name for their child. Unlike western parents, who has only limit set of name to search from, Chinese parents are free to roam around the hundreds thousands of Chinese characters, putting together any 2 characters (the combinations are limitless). There is never any restriction or custom how a name should be. You can create the most interesting yet unique name ever... What an exciting thing just to think about it!
Some of my friends have very good names. For example, Irene's name, Yuang-Ying, means "a delicate and graceful study" + "sparkling with wisdom just like jade". Claire Hsiao's name is "I-hon". "I" means one in number, also it is the start of any form of life or lifeless objects. It can be the smallest but has the limitless implication. "hon" means broad, usually used to describe a person's mind.
My name is "Kun-Er". "Kun" means "ying", everything opposite to "yang". Suppose the sun is "yang", then the moon is "ying". If the sky is yang, then the earth is ying. "Er" sometimes means nothing at all, this word is used by northerner a lot but rarely by southerners. It is a helper to finish a single noun, to make it sound richer. But sometimes it can mean offsprings. I guess my name can be interpreted as "offspring of the earth".
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