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in reply to a message by cassilda in carcosa
Huh! That is quite the mystery!
I did some digging too, and found a site that claims Nushi is the second most common name in the world, and it says that it is used in China. If true, that would explain why it's such a surprise - I don't know anyone from China, so I have no idea what names are popular there.
Curiously enough, the site does not seem to know which gender Nushi should be, and also says it "could be a surname". If I look up what the most common names are in China, Nushi is suddenly nowhere to be found.
I am beginning to suspect that something was perhaps lost in translation by programs gathering up info.... After more googling, I discovered that "Nushi" might be a phonetic translation of a Mandarin word for a title that means "Miss, Ms, lady" So maybe that's what's really going on. I easily believe that there are at least 55 million Ms. Somethings in China.
If that's the case, I think Nushi is pretty cute. I'd use it as a first name. It could be really cute for a pet!
(Actually this reminds me of the time I thought I discovered a really interesting obscure name in my genealogy but it turned out to be the word "Unknown" in Dutch. LOL)
I did some digging too, and found a site that claims Nushi is the second most common name in the world, and it says that it is used in China. If true, that would explain why it's such a surprise - I don't know anyone from China, so I have no idea what names are popular there.
Curiously enough, the site does not seem to know which gender Nushi should be, and also says it "could be a surname". If I look up what the most common names are in China, Nushi is suddenly nowhere to be found.
I am beginning to suspect that something was perhaps lost in translation by programs gathering up info.... After more googling, I discovered that "Nushi" might be a phonetic translation of a Mandarin word for a title that means "Miss, Ms, lady" So maybe that's what's really going on. I easily believe that there are at least 55 million Ms. Somethings in China.
If that's the case, I think Nushi is pretty cute. I'd use it as a first name. It could be really cute for a pet!
(Actually this reminds me of the time I thought I discovered a really interesting obscure name in my genealogy but it turned out to be the word "Unknown" in Dutch. LOL)
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Wow, you put in the work! Ms/Miss etc. being mistaken for a name rather than title by an algorithm makes sense, and like you said there would be a lot of people called Ms/Miss/Mrs in China.
Thanks for finding a reasonable solution to this mystery!
Thanks for finding a reasonable solution to this mystery!
Never met a Chinese person named Nushi in almost six years living there, anyway it would probably be Nu Shi and be the combination of different ideograms? According to my dictionary app there are a bunch of Chinese words corresponding to Nushi,none being very name-sounding.
Identifying which names are popular on China seems hard to pin down considering the almost infinite way you can potentially use ideograms plus people often changing their name or having their name changed by their parents, plus people using English names when interacting with foreigners.
Identifying which names are popular on China seems hard to pin down considering the almost infinite way you can potentially use ideograms plus people often changing their name or having their name changed by their parents, plus people using English names when interacting with foreigners.