Not a dictionary entry: what the character has meant in Chinese names, with the original line it comes from. Every quotation below is matched character-for-character against a versioned corpus shipped with this site. Where a page names a character's origin, that line is our own paraphrase of the standard dictionaries — it is not a quotation, and it carries no book title for that reason.
汤之盘铭曰：「茍日新，日日新，又日新。
On his washbasin Tang had it cut: renew yourself each day — again, and again.
What 铭 gives a name is something that stays: not praise received, but a standard you see every day.
「铭」给名字的是「记得住、也守得住」：不是被人夸，是自己每天看见。
彼泽之陂，有蒲与荷。
On the bank of that marsh grow the cattails and the lotus.
Where water rests long enough to grow something.
「泽」是水停下来的地方。
Mandarin is tonal: the same letters said on a different pitch are a different word. The line below is the pitch you actually travel while saying the name.
We checked it against a corpus of 1,142,000 real Chinese names — this is not a combination invented for the page.
A lightweight model scores the name on five dimensions — without your birth chart. The full version re-scores it against your chart, explains every deduction, and shows every candidate it considered.
an inscription you see every day — self-warning before remembrance · marsh; benefit — taken as one scene rather than three separate definitions.
The cards are rendered with real calligraphy fonts — the name is written, not drawn by an image model, so it can never be misspelt.
You have just seen what every character means, which element it belongs to, its source, and how many real people are actually called this. What Orient Pro adds is judgement: it casts your (or your child's) birth chart, screens every candidate character against it, and gives you the five-dimension score with every deduction explained, all the candidate names it considered, a printable report and a poster.
