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CHINESE 'BAD' PERSONAL NAMES

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Kaluzynska I.
Onomastica
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2004
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vol. 49
81-94
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The paper introduces some traditional Chinese rules concerning personal naming, especially the regulations on lexical items to be avoided in personal names, and analyzes in some more detail the problem of so-called 'bad names'. The authoress discusses 103 different lexical items used for 215 given names or their parts and considered by some Chinese and Western scholars as 'bad names', i.e. being inelegant, unpleasant, and depreciating or even scolding their bearers. The fundamental idea of which 'bad names' have grown up, namely the protection of persons from evil powers, fell into oblivion, and such names are usually treated as improper and formed against the traditional Chinese rules of name-giving.
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Patterns of Chinese Female Names and Names with the 'Woman' Radical

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Kaluzynska I.
Rocznik Orientalistyczny
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2007
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vol. 59
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issue 2
128-137
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The physiological differences of men and women and philosophical differences in the attitude to the both sexes have brought about great differences in their productive activities, social roles, and other aspects. Chinese women have held an inferior status in society for more than 3000 years of the history of China, and their social position has had great influence on female personal names. As the Chinese naming practice does not restrict the list of possible given names (a name is formed individually), and they are considered lexical items rather than onomastic ones, female names seem to be well suited for a study of some stereotyped opinions and cultural expectations concerning women.The paper presents patterns of female names in the historical and contemporary China, and describes in some more detail the given names constructed of morphemes/words written in characters with a 'woman' radical or a graphical element, as an evident indicator of female names in their written form. The investigation is based upon the research material consisting of 1552 female given names of 1595 women, chosen from 'Huaxia funü mingren cidian' (Dictionary of Famous Chinese Women), published in 1988 in Beijing, China, and of given names of 896 female students performing their studies in Beijing Language and Culture University and Beijing Foreign Languages University in 2003/2004.
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