吐尔逊 (Tǔ'ěrxùn): Tursun (common Uyghur given name, Chinese transliteration)

Meanings

1 Tursun (common Uyghur given name, Chinese transliteration)
2 meaning 'one who remains/endures' in Uyghur — a traditional name given to a child born after previous children died young

Characters

吐

Examples

吐尔逊大叔在新疆开了一家饭馆。

Tǔ'ěrxùn dàshū zài Xīnjiāng kāi le yī jiā fànguǎn.

Uncle Tursun runs a restaurant in Xinjiang.

记者采访了村民吐尔逊·买买提。

Jìzhě cǎifǎng le cūnmín Tǔ'ěrxùn · Mǎimàití.

The reporter interviewed the villager Tursun Mamat.

Tips

culture

Tursun (تۇرسۇن) comes from the Uyghur verb turmaq (to stand, to stay) — traditionally given as a protective name. It's one of the most frequent male names across Uyghur, Uzbek, and Kazakh communities in Xinjiang.

usage

In Chinese text, Uyghur names are typically written with a middle dot between given name and patronymic, e.g. 吐尔逊·买买提 (Tursun Mamat). Watch for the apostrophe in pinyin: Tǔ'ěrxùn, needed because ěr begins with a vowel.