The word "西" in a person's name can be pronounced as either xī or qiàn. However, the difference is that xī is generally used for the transliteration of foreign women's names, such as Nancy; while qiàn is more commonly used for Chinese names.
Qian, the total number of strokes is 9, and the radical is 艹. Phonetic. From the tail, four sounds. The original meaning is that the name of the grass, "Qiancao" when pronounced as qiàn, refers to madder, and also refers to "dark red" in ancient Chinese. When reading xī, the word used for transliteration is mostly used for names of people.
The evolution of glyphs
Interesting facts about when Qian is used in people’s names:
In "Kangxi Dictionary", "Old Chinese Dictionary" and "Shuowen Jiezi", Chinese Since ancient times, the word Qian has only been pronounced as "qian", and the traditional Chinese character is "qian". It was not until the movie "Sissi" was released in 1955 that the translator translated Sissi into Sici, and the pronunciation of xi came into being, which made the audience generally accept the pronunciation of xi in the word xi, which led some dictionaries to include the word xi in the new version. Change the character Akane to a polyphonic character.
Since the emergence of famous diving star Ren Qian in the past two years, there have been more and more reports about her. What’s interesting is, should her name be pronounced Ren Qian (Xi) or Ren Qian (Qian)? It’s hard to tell from the words alone. Even CCTV’s front-end and back-end pronunciations of her name were not consistent in the same report.
Once, a reporter from CCTV interviewed Ren Qian specifically on this issue. "There are two pronunciations. The name on the passport is Ren Qian (Qian), so we call her Ren Qian (Qian) abroad." Ren Qian said, "But in China, everyone still likes to be called Ren Qian (Xi). "Ren Qian finally revealed the answer to the mystery. CCTV reporter followed the trend and said: "Okay, then we will call you Ren Qian (Xi) from now on. Ren Qian also smiled and agreed.