posted by [identity profile] benlehman.livejournal.com at 05:13am on 09/04/2006
In pinyin, yeah.

For an English audience, I try to write things in English words or, at the least, English phonics. So xi -> she , an -> ahn

 
posted by [identity profile] silvergoose.livejournal.com at 05:20am on 09/04/2006
Sean, a sophomore here at Brown, is playing a character with that name in the current LARP.

Summons the pheonix all the time.
 
posted by [identity profile] benlehman.livejournal.com at 05:42am on 09/04/2006
What meaning does the name have? In other words: 什么“xi"什么”an"?
 
posted by [identity profile] silvergoose.livejournal.com at 02:13pm on 09/04/2006
Given he's a samurai, I'm actually kinda confused by it. I'll ask him this afternoon.
 
posted by [identity profile] psychotropek.livejournal.com at 09:43pm on 09/04/2006
It's his Chinese name (his mother is Chinese), and I'm not exactly sure as to the meaning.
 
posted by [identity profile] silvergoose.livejournal.com at 01:13pm on 10/04/2006
The an is peace, and thus xi-an is some form of peace.

Beyond that he is unsure.

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