Chinese names

漢字名 · food-store

From Life Dictionary, Nature 2, “The correct method of the name register.” Food-store radicals apply only when the name is written in Chinese characters — not a door for everyone. The book: lunar months are “for humans born in the Taiwan region”; the local yin court follows the folk government’s calendar. Do not apply Taiwan’s lunar months to the whole world; elsewhere follow the local yin court / local government calendar. Not folk eight characters, not stroke luck; day and hour do not enter the food-store.

Food-store radicals apply only to names written in Chinese characters. The book’s lunar months are a rule for births in the Taiwan region; local yin courts follow the local government’s calendar. Do not apply Taiwan’s almanac to the whole world.

《人生字典》自然篇-2〈人取名冊的正確法〉 · toh.org.tw · fwdict

No folk naming lore that is not in the book.

Light over heavy

The books also want the sense of a character to carry weight: the upper character light, the lower heavy. In a three-character name the surname is not counted; in a two-character name it is. This is not ordinary stroke-count naming.

Sense-weight 0–9 (examples in the book)

1. 0empty / none / vanished沒、無、不、完
2. 1least quantity一、小、少
3. 2rank / two-sided二、士、乙、子
4. 3positional三、水、山、虫
5. 4formed / regular國、書、樹、魚
6. 5mid-nine / grains米、中、土、平、禾
7. 6downward flow / busy六、落、流
8. 7gentle女、純、秀
9. 8firm / yang男、福、明
10. 9strong偉、勇、長、順、生

The books also: the rain radical is poor for most people (performers excepted); fire scalds the food-store. Metal with water, wood with fire — the body will not stay well. Earth pairs with anything. Not folk five-elements.

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