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A lot of fantastic meanings.
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I think Li is a beautiful name. It is short and simple, yet strong and classy with a variety of pleasant meanings. I think it is completely gender-neutral, as I can easily picture this name on a male and a female. Overall, I think Li is a great name.
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Hadesi (哈得斯) Badelihan (巴德里汗) is a Chinese cross-country skier who competed at 2022 Winter Olympics.
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Li can also be written with the Chinese character 里 (lǐ) meaning "neighbourhood; Village; lane" but also "lining; cloth".
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E9%87%8C
https://www.infocina.net/dizionario
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https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E9%87%8C
https://www.infocina.net/dizionario
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Li can also be written with the character 俐 (lì) meaning "smooth; clever; sharp". This is the character in Gong Li's name.
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E4%BF%90
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https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E4%BF%90
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With 12 889 649 bearers, Li is the 4th most common given name in China (2014 Data).
Source: https://forebears.io/forenames/li
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Source: https://forebears.io/forenames/li
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According to multiple sources, Li is a popular unisex given name in China. With 12 889 649 bearers, Li is the 4th most common given name in China (2014 Data).
Sources: https://forebears.io/forenames/li
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_popular_given_names
https://www.babynames.ch/Info/Name/naLi
https://babynames.com/name/Li
https://www.names.org/n/li/about
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According to multiple sources, Li is a popular unisex given name in China. With 12 889 649 bearers, Li is the 4th most common given name in China (2014 Data).
Sources: https://forebears.io/forenames/li
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_popular_given_names
https://www.babynames.ch/Info/Name/naLi
https://babynames.com/name/Li
https://www.names.org/n/li/about
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A REALLY popular surname in China.
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Li Shang from Mulan.
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Gong Li is a Chinese actress, probably best known to western audiences for her role as Hatsumomo in Memoirs of a Geisha. Widely regarded as one of the best actresses in China, she has starred in three of the four Chinese-language films nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.
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The meanings are pretty great.
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Sounds better as a surname. I only knew people with the surname Li, never first name.
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Some one-syllable, two-letter names have Zen appeal, while others not so much. Not all names translate as well into any particular language and are perfectly fine as given names, but not necessarily when referred to outside the cultural distinction.
In Chinese and other languages that use characters rather than letters, the character and pronunciation for the name Li is considered appealing. When used as part of a double name such as Emi-Li, I think the transliteration Li works well. On its own it gets lost and becomes flat and uninteresting.
When transliterated as Lee, Leigh or Leagh (all unisex) for males or Lee, Lea, Leie, Leigh, Leagh for females, all pronounced the same (according to English standardised orthography and/or origin of the name), the name has transformed its appeal, now containing linguistic character, without having to lose the intent of its transliterated origin and/or meaning.
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In Chinese and other languages that use characters rather than letters, the character and pronunciation for the name Li is considered appealing. When used as part of a double name such as Emi-Li, I think the transliteration Li works well. On its own it gets lost and becomes flat and uninteresting.
When transliterated as Lee, Leigh or Leagh (all unisex) for males or Lee, Lea, Leie, Leigh, Leagh for females, all pronounced the same (according to English standardised orthography and/or origin of the name), the name has transformed its appeal, now containing linguistic character, without having to lose the intent of its transliterated origin and/or meaning.
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Li means "plum" in Mandarin Chinese.
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This is WAY, let me repeat it, WAY better than Leigh or Lee. On a girl. Leigh is perfectly fine for a boy, but not for a girl.
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I think you're missing something because in Google Translate my name is there, 李, but there is no 李.
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Li Ren is the father of Lie Ren in the American animated series RWBY.
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Li also means Jasmine. Reference source MDBG English-Chinese dictionary.
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I've seen this name used in two different series. In Avatar: The Last Airbender, this is the alias Zuko uses while in the Earth Kingdom. In the anime Darker Than Black, the protagonist Hei uses this (sometimes spelled as Lee) as his civilian persona.
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Miss Li (birth name Linda) is a a singer from Sweden.
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Li can also mean "plum" or "pear" in Chinese - depending on its tone - and can be used to form such names as "Li Hua (flower)", which means "pear blossom."
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In Irish, "Li" is the word for "hue, colour".
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One of the top three surnames of Chinese.
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Pronounced "LEE".
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"Li" is a very common surname in China. So I heard, anyway.
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In Hebrew the name means "for me".
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There is also a Li which means "beautiful" and is used in female names, such as Lili.
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