镇宇

鎮宇
Zhènyǔ
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Meanings

  1. 1 Zhenyu (common Chinese given name)
  2. 2 Chen-yu (Taiwanese spelling, e.g. Chen-yu Chen of Mayday — drummer 冠佑 stage name)

Examples

Wǒ gēge jiào Zhènyǔ.
My older brother is called Zhenyu.
Tā gěi háizi qǔmíng Zhènyǔ, xīwàng tā zhènshǒu qiánkūn.
He named his child Zhenyu, hoping he would 'guard the cosmos'.

Tips

culture
A masculine given name combining (to command/garrison) and (cosmos/sky). The aspirational reading is 'one who commands the heavens'. Among bearers in subtitle data, the most common reference is the actor 镇宇 (Wong Tsan-Yu) and similarly named Hong Kong/Taiwan film characters.
usage
Both characters are everyday, so out of context 镇宇 could also mean 'to garrison the realm' in classical-flavored writing — context (a person introduction vs. a literary line) tells you which reading is meant.

Stroke Order

zhèn