Do you like your middle name?

My middle name is my Chinese name so yes, I do have some sort of fondness for it. It's only for legal reasons they even put my Chinese name in there, they're in actuality two seperate entities so I guess, technically, I don't even have a middle name. Huh.

It's Tse-Chien, if no one was wondering. Tse is a type of suffix for child or kid and Chien is an over fanciful way to say pretty.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Yamamanama

What transliteration and language is that? I'm pretty sure I know what you're talking about for Tse, but zhongwen.com doesn't have anything resembling chien.

It's Mandarin Chinese. Tse is at Zhongwen.com but it doesn't have Chien. In fact, I've only run across 2 dictionaries in my time that even had it in there, it's an old poetic way of saying beautiful so most modern Chinese-English dictionaries wouldn't include since it's basically not part of everyday language.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Here I just wrote the character out for you. To be honest I never formally learned pinying, I went to a Taiwanese chinese School here in the States so we learned zhuyin instead.

Chien is the way my parents formally spelled it on my birth certificate but I'm not positive what form of pinying it actually is. They spelled Tse instead of Zi (the way Zhongwen.com has it) so I'm assuming it's not the same type of pinying that site has.

Just curious but why are you so interested?

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.