The meanings of names in the Jade Empire are important; an auspicious name can help its owner by bringing good luck and inviting the gaze of the Fortunes.
MALE NAMES
AIGUO - patriotic
AKIHIKO - bright prince
AKIO - glorious man
AKIRA - bright
ATSUSHI - industrious
BINGWEN - cultivated
BO - sea
BO-HAI - waves of the gulf
CHANG - flourishing
CHANG-MING - flourishing brightness
CHAO - surpassing
CHAO-KIANG - surpassing good fortune
CHEN - morning
CHENG - accomplished or sincere
CHENGLEI - become great
CHI - energy and vitality
CHIANG - auspicious
CHIANLIANG - esteemed and bright
CHIAO - filial piety
CHIAO-SI - respectful heir
CHING - celebration
CHINGSHAN - clear mountain
CHINGSHENG - pure birth
CHICHIANG - strong spear
CHONG-AN - ancestral blessing
CHUAN-LI - transmitting propriety
CHUE - education and knowledge
CHUEYOU - studious and friendly
CHUN - spring
DA - attainment
DAI - greatness
DAICHI - great land or great wisdom
DAIKI - great glory
DELUN - virtuous order
DEMING - virtue bright
DINGCHIANG - stability and fortune
DUYI - extraordinary one
EIJI - prosperity and peace
ENLAI - favour coming
FANG - honest and upright
FU-HUA - wealthy and magnificent
GANG - strong
GUANGLI - making propriety expansive
GUI - honoured and noble
GUIREN - valuing benevolence
GUOZHI - great country
HAJIME - beginning
HARU - spring, sunlight
HENG - eternal
HIDEAKI - shining excellence
HIDEKI - splendid opportunity
HIKARU - radiance
HIRO - abundance, prosperous
HIROKI - abundant strength
HIROYUKI - widespread happiness
HISAO - long-lived man
HISASHI - long-lived
HONG - great
HONGHUI - great splendour
HUA - magnificent
HUAN - happiness
HUANG - bright
HUI - intelligent and wise
HUIZHONG - wise and loyal
ISAMU - courage
ISAO - honour and merit
JIA - good family
JIANGUO - build the country
JIN - gold
JINJING - essence of gold
JUNJIE - handsome and outstanding
KANG - wellbeing
KUN - earth
KATASHI - firmness
KATSU - victorious
KAZUHIKO - harmonious prince
KAZUHIRO - prosperous one
KAZUKI - harmonious hope
KEI - blessed, lucky
KENICHI - health first
KENSHIN - modest truth
KENTA - healthy and strong
KICHIROU - lucky son
KIN - gold
KIOSHI - pure
KO - happiness
KYOU - cooperation
LEI - thunder
LI - power and strength
LIANG - bridge
LING - jade pendant
LIWEI - greatness and profit
MADOKA - circle
MAKOTO - sincere and true
MAMORU - protector
MASAAKI - true brightness
MASAHIKO - just prince
MASAHIRO - justice prospers
MASAKI - flourishing tree
MASANORI - model of justice
MASASHI - elegant and splendid
MASAYOSHI - flourishing goodness
MICHIO - man on the correct path
MINORI - truth
MING - bright
MINZHE - sensitive and wise
MITSUO - shining man
MITSURU - growing
NIANZU - reveres the ancestors
NING - tranquil
NAO - esteemed
NOBORU - ascend
NOBUYUKI - faithful happiness
NORIO - man of law
OSAMU - disciplined and logical
PING - stable
RENSHU - benevolent forbearnace
RONG - harmonious
RYO - refreshing
RYOTA - stout and strong
RYUU - dragon spirit
SADAO - decisive man
SATORU - enlightened and knowledgeable
SATOSHI - clear-thinking and wise
SHAN - mountain
SHI - poet
SHIGERU - flourishing
SHIN - advancing and progressive
SHI-NING - world at peace
SHI-RONG - scholarly honour
SHO - to fly
SHU - good and virtuous
SIYU - thinking of the world
SORA - sky
TADAO - loyal man
TAI - great
TAKASHI - elevated and praiseworthy
TAKAYUKI - moving to heights
TAKEO - warrior man
TAKUMI - adroit and skilful
TAMOTSU - defender
TARO - great son
TATSUO - dragon man or imperial man
TETSUO - wise hero
TENGFEI - soaring high
TIAN - celestial
TINGZHE - wise courtier
TOMIO - treasured man
TOSHI - alert and intelligent
TOSHI - brilliant man
TSUYOSHI - brave and valiant
WEI - high and strong
WEISHENG - great success
WEIZHE - preserves wisdom
WEN - refined
YANG - bright sunlight
YAO - sage
YAOTING - dazzling courtier
YASUHIRO - abundant tranquillity
YASUO - healthy man
YING - outstanding and admirable
YINGJIE - outstanding hero
YINGPEI - revered hero
YONG - brave soldier
YONGNIAN - immortal
YONGRUI - forever good omens
YORI - servant of the Empire
YOSHIO - admirable man
YU - jade
YUU - superior
YUKI - happy hero
ZEMIN - radiant and exuberant
ZHAO - sunlight
ZHEN - discerning
ZHENG - harmony
ZHENGSHENG - harmonious voice
ZHICHIANG - strong-willed
ZIAN - tranquil child