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Sunday 11 August 2013

Significant Details About Oriental Name Symbolism

By Steve Chung


It is seen that the Chinese symbols still remain as popular as but the fact is that Chinese language is evolving into a more formalized writing script than what it was before. Since the west found the aesthetic appeal of these symbols they are enjoying a glory which is quite recent.

The Chinese symbols served a dual purpose of being a means of communication for the people as well as expression of art. The main reason why these symbols still have a world wide appeal is because they are so beautiful and extremely simple form of expression.

The popularity of the Chinese symbol in the west is increasing day by day and those who have them is considered to be hip and trendy. It has become a latest fashion in the western society to have names of the individuals written in form of Chinese symbol on pictures or posters or on the personal items and accessories or get it tattooed on the body.

An individual's name in the form of a Chinese symbol says a lot about the person's traits. It doesn't matter if the others do not know how to read those Chinese symbols. What matters is that you know that this certain symbol stands for your name and when someone asks you can explain it to them.

What attracts the people to translate their names to Chinese symbol is the physical beauty of these symbols. Once people get to know them they like to use these symbols like a logo which can be used for various purposes describing their personality.

The artistic expression behind these symbols is so fascinating that they are adopted and appreciated at any corner of the world without knowingrealizing what they mean. You should be cautious only when you are using them to write your name as these symbols have specific meanings which have to match with your name.

One should take the initiative to find out what a symbol means before they get it written and not go for only the physical beauty of the symbol because later it can turn out to be something embarrassing for you.

Getting your name changed into Chinese symbol will not pose any problem as there are number of ways to get it done. Once the name is translated to Chinese however the sound of the name changes with it. It will be useless to try and pronounce your name in your own way as it will have no meaning what so ever.

It is quite probable that people will imagine their names to sound same when it is translated into Chinese symbol which is not at all possible and it sounds pretty different. What we don't understand is that it cannot be a direct conversion. Each of these symbols has different meaning and it will be these meanings that your name will depict after transformation.




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