Thanks to my many Mandarin (or Putonghua) speaking friends here in Hong Kong, I’ve become the lucky recipient of my very own Chinese name: 爱美丽. The characters represent phonetic approximations of my name’s sounds, Ei-Mei-Li.
Translation? Love, Beauty.
A very lucky and feminine translation for a girl’s name, I’m told. Hey, I’m not complaining. (Don’t ask me for my Cantonese [...]
