Auspicious Chinese Name Checklist for Tiger Baby

Welcome to the new year 2022 – the year of the Tiger! Most of you would have heard before on name selection and choosing suitable characters. What is the logic? Is it just some myths? My aim today is to share with you on some of these areas.

If you are expecting a Tiger baby, this article would be useful for you to know. With that, what names are favourable for those born in the year of the Tiger?

​​Let’s look at some of the considerations and interesting info that you may not know.

Interesting Fact:
Although CNY falls on 1 Feb, do you know babies born from 4 Feb (estimated 450am) onwards are then considered Tiger babies?
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People born in year of Tiger: Brave, courageous and strong

Tiger is a brave leader. Courageous, strong and roams in the mountainous area or jungle. They can be a little reckless at times and they are carnivore and hunt for food.

Among the 12 zodiacs, they are also friends with other zodiacs such as Horse and Dog. They also dislike Monkey and Snake. This 12 zodiac relationship is actually part of 八字 fundamentals used in our destiny reading.

Using these, it forms part of the knowledge and application towards Chinese name selection. In this article, I will show you some of the characters you can consider and should avoid in name selection for your baby.

Favourable characters and radicals to consider for Tiger:
王,  大，君
Being the king and leader, these characters are suited for the Tigers. This enhances the luck of the Tiger to gain leadership and being the leader.
王,  玉,  玲,  珍,  环,  群,  太，天，添，旺， 环，琳，玮，琪， 珊
 
木，山，林
This is the Tiger’s natural habitat and would give comfort and protect the Tiger.
木， 林、森，树，琳， 柏，根，梁， 柔，岳，山，峰,  松，柞
 
午，戌
These are characters representing Horse and Dog. As friends, it brings allies, support and nobleman luck for Tiger. Horse also represents fire with Tiger being wood. This also forms a smooth flow of energy between Tiger and Horse.
许，武， 威，成，盛，城，冯，马，烈,  杰，丙，炳，炎，献
 
 心，肉，月
These characters or radicals represent food and ensures an abundance in luck and not have to worry on food.
朋, 月，有，望， 惠，慧，恩，思， 志，忠，意， 悬

氵， 冫， 水    
Tiger’s element in bazi is wood. With prescense of water, it signify nobleman luck and growth to the Tiger.
沈，净，冰，汃，冲，深，温，洪，鸿，浩，洲，洋，泳， 洁，凌

How about characters that are to be avoided by Tigers?
 
门，口
Tigers prefer to roam. With these radicals, it carries the meaning of trap and loss of freedom.
间，国，园，因，团，圆，和，如，古，名，吉，吕，知
 
辶，廴，虫
The radical represents Snake. In bazi and zodiac context, there is a clash against Tiger and represents potential harm.
过，逊，连，进，速，建，廷，庭，近，选
 
日，光
Tigers natural time to be active is at night. As such, they dislike day light and also it may mean being at risk of hunted.
日，晶，旺，星，晴，明，，晓，智，耀，光
 
 申
The character represents Monkey in zodiac and bazi. It also represents a direct clash to Tiger and hence it is best to avoid.
申，绅，坤，伸, 侯
 
人，彳
Similarly, Tigers do not like being control by human. As such, names should avoid having any of the listed radicals or characters.
人，从，健，伟，伦，伊，佩，信，俏，侨，仕，何，保，微， 德， 律
 
The list of auspicious characters and radicals to be used and those to be avoided are not limited to these shown. This is not an exhaustive list of it. But I hope it gives you an idea a guide if you are picking a name for your baby.

By the way, using the above, you may notice Tiger babies born under the following surname are therefore more suited.
 林，王，马，许，沈，冯，炎，洪，温
 
With that, here’s wishing you a year of abundance in the year 2022 and 虎年行大运！Happy Lunar New Year!