A name from a poem
長風
Pinyin cháng fēngSimplified 长风usually a boy’s name
For someone who keeps aiming farther, undaunted.
What’s wished for
“A time will come to ride the wind and cleave the waves” — Li Bai’s hard-won hope in “Hard Roads.” Like a wind that travels far, for someone who won’t quit, and keeps a wide aim.
Where it comes from
长风破浪会有时
cháng fēng pò làng huì yǒu shí
“A time will come to ride the wind and cleave the waves;”
— Li Bai, “The Road Is Hard” (行路难)
About the two characters
- 長
- long — of road, of years, of wind that carries far
- 風
- wind; air that moves through the open
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