What does Nurhaci mean in Manchu? Does it mean "wild boar skin"? The Jurchens at that time used Mongolian (also Chinese), and Mongolian evolved from Uygur, so Both Mongolian and Jurchen languages ??contain Uighur elements. Nurhachi's name is Uighur, "Nur" means "bright" in Uighur; "Hachi" (Haqi) means "holy descendant" in Uighur, and is also used as "prince" and "eldest son". "Use, "Nurhaci" means "the saint of light". Some books and periodicals say that "Nurhachi" means wild boar skin, and "Shurhaqi" means small wild boar skin. What is the basis for this statement?
In Manchu, the word wild boar skin is Nuheci, because the little wild boar is nuhen. In Manchu, n is the original suffix of the noun, and ci is the derived suffix of the noun. If you remove the n of the little wild boar nuhen and replace it with ci, it becomes wild boar skin.
Wild boars are two completely different animals from domesticated domestic pigs in the cultures of many ethnic groups in Northeast Asia (Manchu, Japanese, etc.). In fact, the Han people also strictly distinguished the two animals in ancient times. The wild boar is regarded as a symbol of bravery and a warrior who never retreats. In Hayao Miyazaki's Princess Mononoke, there is a wild boar god as one of the guardian deities of the forest. Therefore, the Manchus used to name their boys after wild boars, just like naming them after tigers and leopards, hoping that their children would be strong and brave.
In Manchu lexicon, masculine sounds are mostly used to refer to men, and feminine sounds are mostly used to refer to women, such as: haha--male, hehe--female, ama--father, eme--mother, age-- Boy, gege--girl, dou--brother, nen--sister...etc. Maybe Tucker should have used nuheci when he named his son, but considering that the child was a boy, it was not appropriate for the name to end with a feminine sound. So he was changed to ha, and an excessive sound r was added between the feminine nu and the masculine ha, so that it would not be a tongue twister. Finally, the suffix ci was added, and it became Nurhachi.