谢 / 謝 [Xie / Tse] Meaning: to thank, to apologize, to wither (of flowers, leaves etc), to decline. Dialects : Cantonese.
Some characteristic forenames: Chinese: Wai, Wing, Kwok, Siu, Kam, Chung, Lai, Man, Chiu, Choi, Chun, Kin, Ping, Yiu, Pak, Woon, Cho, Chong, Moon, Shiu, Sik, Toy, Waiyee. Chinese: Cantonese form of the surname 謝, see Xie 1.
You might know the place with the name of Monument Valley; it does have a traditional Navajo name “Tse Bii” Ndzisgaii. The name interprets as “Valley of Rocks.” The easy way to pronounce this name is Ze-Bi-N-Dis-Guy.
And although the name Marcus seems to follow the style of her two sons with Tse - Lucas and Quintus - their Chinese names do not match up. Lucas and Quintus are Zhen Xuan and Zhen Nan respectively.
Tse is a boy's name of Ghanaian origin. Like many traditional Ghanaian names, this name is an example of where literal just feels right. Meaning "younger twin", this makes choosing two names in one go much easier.
Li (李) – 'Lee' or 'Lei' in Cantonese and Hakka – means plum or plum tree and the name is connected to the Tang dynasty (618-906 AD), a period when the surname rose in popularity. Emperors of the Tang dynasty used 'Li' and would bestow the name on others deemed worthy.
Some of the rare surnames Kuo has collected include Hu (虎, tiger), Yi (蟻, ant), Shui (水, water), Yun (雲, cloud), Suo (鎖, lock), Dan (但, but) and Mai (買, buy). Some of the surnames were so rare that the character could not be found on a computer, he said.
Southern Vietnamese tend to clip some of their sounds, so Nguyen would be pronounced something like “Win” or “Wen.” Northern Vietnamese would keep it, giving a pronunciation more like “N'Win” or “Nuh'Win,” all done as best you can in one syllable.
Correct Pronunciation of Nguyen
N'win/Ng'win: One syllable. Ng'win is closest to the correct Vietnamese pronunciation. Noo-yen/Ngoo-yen: Two syllables. Nuh-goo-yen: Three syllables.
TSE. abbreviation or noun. : transmissible spongiform encephalopathy. The causative agent of the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSE) or prion diseases, which include sheep scrapie, mad cow disease, and human variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD), is still hotly debated.
Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs) or prion diseases are a family of rare progressive neurodegenerative brain disorders that affect both humans and animals. They have long incubation periods, progress rapidly once symptoms develop and are always fatal.
"Nguyễn" is the transcription of the Sino-Vietnamese pronunciation of the character 阮 (Middle Chinese pronunciation: [ŋʉɐnX], lit. 'a string instrument that is plucked'). The same Chinese character is often romanized as Ruǎn in Mandarin and as Yuen in Cantonese.
Other curse phrases
Puk gai (踣街, more commonly idiomatically written as 仆街; pūk gāai) literally means "falling onto street", which is a common curse phrase in Cantonese that may be translated into English as "drop dead". It is sometimes used as a noun to refer to an annoying person that roughly means a "prick".
Xie ([ɕjê]; simplified Chinese: 谢; traditional Chinese: 謝; pinyin: Xiè; Wade–Giles: Hsieh4) is a Chinese-language surname. lt is usually romanized as "Hsieh" in Taiwan.
Yet there's no doubt about which surname is the most popular in the world: Wang. More than 106 million people have the surname Wang, a Mandarin term for prince or king. It's not too surprising that the top surname is Chinese, as China has the world's largest population.
Wáng (王) Wáng is the most common surname in mainland China and is a royal surname meaning “King.” This surname has origins from multiple royal families from the Qin dynasty to the Tang dynasty. Those with the surname Wang are likely descendants of royalty.
However, Zhang Wei (张伟) is the most common full name in mainland China. The top five surnames in China – Wang, Li, Zhang, Liu, Chen – are also the top five surnames in the world, each with over 70-100 million worldwide.
Bái is the pinyin of the surname 白, meaning the colour white.