Thursday, September 15, 2016

My Name Is Confusing

Lianghuan Tan
September 15 2016
My Name Is Confusing
My full name is Lianghuan Tan. “Tan” is my family name. It means my grandfather and my father have it too. My first name has two Chinese characters: “Liang” and “Huan”. “Liang” means good and “Huan”means washing. However, it has no meaning when they are together, so I don’t understand my name and why my grandfather gave it to me. Maybe the only reason why my name has the character: “Liang” is my older brother has it. I have looked up the characters in a dictionary in order to figure it out. In addition, it is more like a woman’s name and its pronunciation is ugly. I dont like it because it is confusing, feminine and ugly. I hope I can have a cool, new name that represents my real personality. Even if I dont like it, it has followed me for many years like my shadow so that I should be face it bravely.

   

5 comments:

  1. Hi Lianghuan Tan!
    I like your name. I consider the name is a sign of love and this is a reason all of as we have one. Perhaps, you can see your name confusing, but I have another point of view about your name. It's unique and original for me. Moreover, it could have another meaning in the present or future like "good washing to help people to don't feel sadness". Good luck in this semester! See you :)

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  2. I have some friends that have same last name "Tan". I like your post. It made me laugh when I read through. It is very interesting.

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  3. Hi Lianghuan Tan
    Yesh, It's quite long name like my family mane'chanthapanya'. It's interesting story

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  4. I like your name, it sounds good. Actually I'm also confused about my chinese name haha, once someone told me the meaning of my chinese name, and to say the true, It is really weird and I do not like it.

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  5. It's good to see you can face it bravely after you said it was ugly.

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