Manchu name

《The Comprehensive Book of the Eight Manchurian Banners' Surname-Clans (八旗满洲氏族通谱, ᠵᠠᡴᡡᠨ
ᡤᡡᠰᠠᡳ
ᠮᠠᠨᠵᡠᠰᠠᡳ
ᠮᡠᡴᡡᠨ
ᡥᠠᠯᠠ
ᠪᡝ
ᡠᡥᡝᡵᡳ
ᡝᠵᡝᡥᡝ
ᠪᡳᡨᡥᡝJakūn Gūsai Manjusai Mukūn Hala be Uheri Ejehe Bithe）》 p.33

Manchu names are the names of the Manchu people in their own language. Generally, there are several forms, such as bearing suffixes "-ngga", "-ngge" or "-nggo", meaning "having the quality of"; ^[1] bearing the suffixes "-tai" or "-tu", meaning "having"; ^{[2] [3]} bearing the suffix, "-ju", "-boo"; ^[2] numerals ^{[a] [2] [3]} or animal names. ^{[b] [1] [2]}

The Jurchens and their Manchu descendants had Khitan linguistic and grammatical elements in their personal names like suffixes. ^[4] Many Khitan names had a "ju" suffix. ^[5]

Nikan (Han Chinese) was a common first name for Manchus. ^[6] Nikan Wailan was a Jurchen leader who was an enemy of Nurhaci. ^{[7] [8] [9]} Nikan was the name of one of the Aisin Gioro princes and grandsons of Nurhaci who supported Prince Dorgon. ^{[10] [11] [12]} Nurhaci's first son was Cuyen, one of whose sons was Nikan. ^[13]

See also

• List of Manchu clans
• Chinese name

Notes

1. e.g. Nadanju (70 in Manchu), Susai (5 in Manchu), Liošici (67, a Mandarin homophone) and Bašinu (85, a Mandarin homophone) ^[2]
2. e.g. Dorgon (badger) and Arsalan (lion) ^[1]

References

1. Aisin Gioro 2004 , p. 979
2. Elliott 2001 , p. 243
3. Aisin Gioro 2004 , p. 978
4. Toh 2005 , pp. 34, 35, 36
5. Toh 2005 , p. 31
6. Elliott, Mark C. (2001). The Manchu Way: The Eight Banners and Ethnic Identity in Late Imperial China. Stanford University Press. pp. 242–. ISBN   978-0-8047-4684-7.
7. Pamela Kyle Crossley (15 February 2000). A Translucent Mirror: History and Identity in Qing Imperial Ideology. University of California Press. pp. 172–. ISBN   978-0-520-92884-8.
8. Wakeman 1985 , pp. 49–
9. Frederic Wakeman (1 January 1977). Fall of Imperial China. Simon and Schuster. pp. 83–. ISBN   978-0-02-933680-9.
10. Evelyn S. Rawski (15 November 1998). The Last Emperors: A Social History of Qing Imperial Institutions . University of California Press. pp.  99–. ISBN   978-0-520-92679-0. nikan mandahai.
11. Wakeman 1985 , pp. 902–
12. Adam Yuen-chung Lui (1 January 1989). Two Rulers in One Reign: Dorgon and Shun-chih, 1644-1660. Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University. pp. 41, 46. ISBN   978-0-7315-0654-5.
13. Serie orientale Roma. Istituto italiano per il Medio ed Estremo Oriente. 1970. p. 174.

• Wakeman, Frederic Jr. (1985). The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-century China. University of California Press. ISBN   978-0-520-04804-1.
• Toh, Hoong Teik (2005). Materials for a Genealogy of the Niohuru Clan: With Introductory Remarks on Manchu Onomastics. Vol. 10 of Aetas Manjurica. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. ISBN   3447051965. ISSN   0931-282X.
• Stary, Giovanni (2000). Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz (ed.). A Dictionary of Manchu Names: A Name Index to the Manchu Version of the "Complete Genealogies of the Manchu Clans and Families of the Eight Banners" Jakūn gūsai Manjusai mukūn hala be uheri ejehe bithe Baqi Manzhou shizu tongpu. Vol. 8 of Aetas Manjurica. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. ISSN   0931-282X.
• Aisin Gioro (2004). Manchu language basic knowledge. Beijing: Xueyuan Press.