The baby name Ta-Hsien is a Unisex name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced Approx. 'TAH-shyen'; Mandarin pinyin equivalents Dàxián / Dàxiān; IPA (Dàxián): /ta˥˩ ɕjɛn˧˥/.
Ta-Hsien is Chinese in Origin.
The baby name Ta-Hsien is a Unisex name , 2 syllables long and is pronounced Approx. 'TAH-shyen'; Mandarin pinyin equivalents Dàxián / Dàxiān; IPA (Dàxián): /ta˥˩ ɕjɛn˧˥/.
Ta-Hsien is Chinese in Origin.
Ta-Hsien is a Wade–Giles transcription of a Mandarin given name composed of Ta (大, “great”) plus Hsien (贤 “worthy/virtuous,” 显 “illustrious/manifest,” or 仙 “immortal”). Depending on the chosen characters, meanings include “greatly virtuous,” “greatly illustrious,” or “great immortal,” the last carrying Taoist resonance. The name skews masculine in traditional usage but can be unisex today.
The hyphenated Wade–Giles form appears in late-19th and early 20th-century records, overseas Chinese documents, and sinological publications. With Hanyu Pinyin (post-1958), the standard modern rendering is Da Xian or Daxian. Variants reflect dialect or romanization: Cantonese Daai4 Jin4 (大賢) or Daai1 Sin1 (大仙); spellings without a hyphen (Ta Hsien, Tahsien) also occur. Related compounds include Hsien-ta (Xian-da), which inverts the elements. Because meaning hinges on the exact hanzi, families often choose the 贤 or 显 forms for scholarly, virtuous, or successful connotations.
We can't find Ta-Hsien in any of the birth registries or name datasets we track. Most often that means a rare name, a regional or heritage one, or a recent coinage. Either way, it's a name very few children share.
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