Translation Help, Please

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Hi there. I was hoping someone could help me identify the characters on this seal. It's supposed to be a Chinese take on "Kelly" but I'm not having much luck identifying the characters. The last part looks like li, but I can't be certain. Any thoughts would be appreciated.

 

Thanks!

[大块头]

It looks like:

 

姫 (zhen3) archaic meanings include "beautiful"

 

莉 (li4) last character in a typical transliteration of "Kelly" -  凯莉

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Thank you so much! 

[Shelley]

Pleco gives 凱利 as the transliteration for Kelly. What you may have is the transliteration for Julie - 炬利， but I may be wrong. often am:)

[Lu]

Typically seals are written top to bottom, right to left, which would give you 莉姫. I guess the chop cutters write left to right for foreigners buying a souvenir.

[889]

Are we zhen-ping to conclusions here?

 

The character 姬 can also be written as 姫, particularly in Japan, and is pronounced ji in standard Chinese and ki in some dialects. It's also not unusual for seal makers to choose a simpler alternative that carves better.

 

Bear in mind too we don't know where this was carved.

 

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/姬

 

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15 hours ago, 889 said:

Bear in mind too we don't know where this was carved.

It was carved in Hong Kong.

 

That's very interesting. Thanks for the link!