Choosing a chinese name

[craxgard]

I've been asked by my mandarin teacher to choose a chinese name until next class, and I was thinking about either 耿霓晓 or 阴霓晓. Does it seem like a "real" chinese name, or do you have better suggestion? I'm a girl btw.

 

(if I've posted this in the wrong category I'm super sorry)

 

/Elin

[Hofmann]

They look fine.

[skylee]

阴?  You can choose your name and you consider 阴?

[蜜蜡脱敏感到长大]

This one would look nice: 说动态

[Demonic_Duck]

阴's a pretty uncommon surname, and as Skylee says, I'm not sure why you'd specifically want to choose it. It could make people think of 阴天 (gloomy, overcast days) or worse, 阴部 (genitals, and a good number of related words for things in that area use the same character). 耿霓晓 looks fine, in fact it looks like a nice name (to my untrained eye).

[Shelley]

In what way would that look nice? 说动态?

[蜜蜡脱敏感到长大]

 

 

In what way would that look nice? 说动态?

Why not? It's both visually attractive and pleasant to the ear.

[imron]

I don't know if it's just a feature of people I've met, but in my experience 晓 appears to be more commonly used as a middle character rather than the last one.

[february6]

I am a native chinese speaker.  晓 was quite commonly used as a middle character in names of 70s, not so common now. From my personal experience, many such names was originally has  小 in the middle, when the children start school, they think 小 is not suitable for a proper name and change it to 晓。There is nothing wrong to have 晓 as the last character and it sounds good in this name 耿霓晓。

 

To choose 阴 as surname is quite strange to me, I do not know any person have 阴 as surname yet.

[aone]

Elin How about 伊 (Yi) 琳(Lin)？ 

 

阴 is definitely not the first option. You can use one with similar pronunciation to 阴，e.g. 尹.

[Kenny同志]

There's a lovely nun named 儀琳 in the famous wuxia drama 笑傲江湖.

 

video link: http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNDExNTAxODA4.html

 

watch from 07:30.