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| Sennin Senior Member Bulgaria Joined 6034 days ago 1457 posts - 1759 votes  5 sounds | Message 9 of 16 13 July 2009 at 4:06pm | IP Logged | |||||
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My name exists only in Greek and Bulgarian. In all other languages it would be a simple phonetic transcription.
in Bulgarian it is Atanas - Атанас in Greek it is Athanasios - Αθανασιος This guy is my patron:  Edited by Sennin on 13 July 2009 at 4:09pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| minus273 Triglot Senior Member France Joined 5765 days ago 288 posts - 346 votes Speaks: Mandarin*, EnglishC2, French Studies: Ancient Greek, Tibetan | Message 10 of 16 13 July 2009 at 4:27pm | IP Logged | |||||
Ah! Are you immortal thanks to your name? Edited by minus273 on 13 July 2009 at 5:10pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Sennin Senior Member Bulgaria Joined 6034 days ago 1457 posts - 1759 votes 5 sounds | Message 11 of 16 13 July 2009 at 4:40pm | IP Logged | |||||
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minus273, I haven't tested my immortality but you're quite right ;-). That's what it means. Is there any given name in Mandarin that has a similar meaning?
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| minus273 Triglot Senior Member France Joined 5765 days ago 288 posts - 346 votes Speaks: Mandarin*, EnglishC2, French Studies: Ancient Greek, Tibetan | Message 13 of 16 13 July 2009 at 5:14pm | IP Logged | |||||
No. If you are logged in the civil affairs as Xiānrén, you'd be laughed hard. Maybe some kind of longevity works as a given name, but I haven't seen one. (The birthplace of my Grandma is Chángshòu, "longevity") If you are Tibetan, you can call yourself tshe-ring, whose Chinese transliteration (cìrén) would make a good Chinese name (follower of Mercy). But this is length of life rather than immortality. Edited by minus273 on 13 July 2009 at 5:15pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Sennin Senior Member Bulgaria Joined 6034 days ago 1457 posts - 1759 votes 5 sounds | Message 14 of 16 13 July 2009 at 6:56pm | IP Logged | |||||
Hmm... I would rather go for a phonetic transcription. Like ài tiān 愛天 ( "love of the heavens" or something ). Edited by Sennin on 13 July 2009 at 7:06pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| minus273 Triglot Senior Member France Joined 5765 days ago 288 posts - 346 votes Speaks: Mandarin*, EnglishC2, French Studies: Ancient Greek, Tibetan | Message 15 of 16 13 July 2009 at 7:04pm | IP Logged | |||||
xiàotiān ("laugh at the heavens") is significantly more frequent than àitiān, though. How did you pick up 仙人? As a translation? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Kyrie Senior Member United States clandestein.deviantaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5729 days ago 207 posts - 231 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Portuguese | Message 16 of 16 13 July 2009 at 8:55pm | IP Logged | |||||
Hahaha, that should teach me not to post random characters in Chinese ever again. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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