Xia
[ʃiːˈɑː]Meaning
From Chinese 夏 "summer, great, grand" or 霞 "rosy clouds".
Background Story
Xia is the Mandarin pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname written 夏, also romanized Hsia in Wade–Giles and Ha in Cantonese. As a name it is formed from characters pronounced xià, including 夏, meaning "summer, great, grand", 霞, meaning "rosy clouds", or other characters pronounced similarly. A user-submitted entry also records it as a given name.
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