Character names in : Theophoric and virtue names
The spelling on a form and the sound in a classroom can differ. For Character names the year of that difference is , the line is “Theophoric and virtue names,” and the figure is 1. A popularity rank is not a personality score. This page describes those systems and the legal lists that constrain them (especially Japanese jinmeiyō kanji). It will not calculate lucky strokes or destinies.
The koseki (family register) and ministry lists (jōyō and jinmeiyō) limit which characters can be filed for a given name. Do Statistics Korea tables use hanja? KOSTAT publishes given-name frequencies; families may still think in hanja even when the file is hangul. Read releases as counts, not as luck.
Is a “good” character one with lucky strokes? Not here. A good character is one the family intends, the registrar accepts, and the bearer can live with — no stroke-count science. Can I mix a Chinese generation character with an English name? People do, as stacked identities. Keep the kin logic and the English fashion logic in separate columns.
Are character names more “meaningful” than English names? They are often more compositional. Composition is not destiny. See meaning-and-etymology. Outside East Asia, clerks may treat the romanisation as the only name — a practical, not spiritual, problem. Literary Chinese supplied a shared character inventory across East Asia. Local readings and laws then diverged.
The two places are the register and the nickname. ’s “Theophoric and virtue names” splits them. The figure is 1.1
Figures to keep
- Year of the rule
- 1
- Figure on the name
- 1
- Topic
- Character names
- Line in the record
- Theophoric and virtue names
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