I think my Chinese Name 立源 means "Create Wealth For Others" 🤔
@lupyuen Complex. Could suggest you aren't benefiting from the things you create (the wealth is *only* for others) or it just means that your work benefits others. Is there a duality like that in the Chinese?
@2ck Hmmm maybe my parents weren't aware of the deeper meaning of my name...
(1) 立 means "upright" or "erect". This Chinese character is in all my brothers' names. (My sisters are named 康 for "health")
(2) 源 means "source of water" (like a well or a stream) but usually refers to "wealth".
Put them together and we get "create a source of wealth". But a "source of water" isn't meant for personal consumption, it's meant to be shared. So I take this to mean "create wealth for others" 🤔
@Vectorfield @2ck Thanks... 开源 sounds really gruesome... "Open me up!" 😂
@Vectorfield @lupyuen @2ck sounds like the poetic equivalent might be "font" as in "font of happiness".
Then 立源 could mean "font of prosperity" which is a nice sentiment imo :)
@eqe @Vectorfield @2ck Yeah that's probably what my parents intended... Didn't come true though 😉
@lupyuen @Vectorfield @2ck you're doing amazing work in tech literacy prosperity for millions of strangers on the internet, so it did, just not the kind of prosperity nor the beneficiaries they may have been thinking of ... :)
@lupyuen @2ck I think "源" has a broader sense rather than just the source of water, it means the source of any kind .Could be the source of wealth , the source of fortune, or the source of sunlight. It could even mean the source code! "Open source" for example, is written as"开源" in Chinese.