Chinese Personal Names Expressing the Idea of Manliness

The study attempts to analyze modern Chinese male personal names from the standpoint of semantics most frequently used lexemes, thereby revealing a corpus words (hieroglyphs) that serve designate “masculine” in name system. author relies on recent data obtained survey with 200 respondents, however, historical are also considered. It is established linguistic culture, masculinity multifaceted concept, essentially associated such qualities as strength, perseverance, will, determination, ability withstand any life challenges. may convey both through direct definitions (“strong”, “solid”, “strong”, “resolute”, etc.), and images which these embodied allegorically (“wave”, “dragon”, “tiger”, “cypress”, etc.). At same time, 20th century showcase related history country, citizenship, patriotism (“Shine, China”, “Make country strong”, notes since Confucian era, wisdom, humanity, benevolence, following etiquette, flexibility have been blended into “male” semantics. Apparently, newly adopted virtues manliness, without it would be impossible survive world.