The Chinese Horoscope and Personal Naming
The Chinese culture and tradition includes the belief that a person’s constitution and fate are predetermined by the person’s Eight Characters indicating the year, month, day and hour of a person’s birth, with each pair consisting of two appropriate cyclical signs drawn from two sets: Heavenly Stems...
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| description | The Chinese culture and tradition includes the belief that a person’s constitution and fate are predetermined by the person’s Eight Characters indicating the year, month, day and hour of a person’s birth, with each pair consisting of two appropriate cyclical signs drawn from two sets: Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches. The Eight Characters are also connected with the 12 symbolic Chinese Zodiac animals and the Five Elements of the universe, i.e. Metal, Wood, Water, Fire and Earth. Therefore, giving the appropriate name to a person can secure that person’s favourable constitution and fate.
The method of forming Chinese given names discussed here is based on the 12 symbolic animals of the Chinese Zodiac. The symbolic animals are: the Rat, the Ox, the Tiger, the Rabbit, the Dragon, the Snake, the Horse, the Goat, the Monkey, the Rooster, the Dog and the Pig. This method of naming combines information about the named person’s birth with references to the specific features of the symbolic animal in order to influence the person’s horoscope.
Additional discussion deals with some language strategies adapted by the above-mentioned method to specifically name people born in the Year of the Rat. The method considers the lexical meaning of names and their formal aspects, such as forms of Chinese characters and the meaning of individual graphical elements that make up the Chinese characters used to write the name. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1598512025-05-19T12:07:06Z The Chinese Horoscope and Personal Naming Kałużyńska, Irena Chinese personal naming Chinese given names Chinese horoscope Chinese Zodiac Chinese Zodiac animals and name-giving thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences The Chinese culture and tradition includes the belief that a person’s constitution and fate are predetermined by the person’s Eight Characters indicating the year, month, day and hour of a person’s birth, with each pair consisting of two appropriate cyclical signs drawn from two sets: Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches. The Eight Characters are also connected with the 12 symbolic Chinese Zodiac animals and the Five Elements of the universe, i.e. Metal, Wood, Water, Fire and Earth. Therefore, giving the appropriate name to a person can secure that person’s favourable constitution and fate. The method of forming Chinese given names discussed here is based on the 12 symbolic animals of the Chinese Zodiac. The symbolic animals are: the Rat, the Ox, the Tiger, the Rabbit, the Dragon, the Snake, the Horse, the Goat, the Monkey, the Rooster, the Dog and the Pig. This method of naming combines information about the named person’s birth with references to the specific features of the symbolic animal in order to influence the person’s horoscope. Additional discussion deals with some language strategies adapted by the above-mentioned method to specifically name people born in the Year of the Rat. The method considers the lexical meaning of names and their formal aspects, such as forms of Chinese characters and the meaning of individual graphical elements that make up the Chinese characters used to write the name. Published 2025-05-19T12:07:03Z 2025-05-19T12:07:03Z 2023-12-12 chapter 9788323374466 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/159851 eng image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International https://wuj.pl/ksiazka/onomastics-in-interaction-with-other-branches-of-science-volume-2#otwarty-dostep https://wuj.pl/the-chinese-horoscope-and-personal-naming Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego Onomastics in Interaction With Other Branches of Science. Volume 2. Anthroponomastics 10.4467/K7446.46/22.23.17280 10.4467/K7446.46/22.23.17280 b56389e6-bd6e-43b9-abc7-9af91c5afc6b e93deae3-b5ec-4abe-b483-2a536826b783 9788323374466 243-257 open access |
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