A name from a poem
銀河
Pinyin yín héSimplified 银河for anyone
A fall of water like the River of Stars — wonder from above.
What’s wished for
“It must be the River of Stars falling from the ninth heaven” — Li Bai’s Lushan waterfall. For someone whose dreams are as wide as that sky-river.
Where it comes from
疑是银河落九天
yí shì yín hé luò jiǔ tiān
“As if the Silver River fell from azure sky.”
— Li Bai, “Viewing the Waterfall at Mount Lu” (望庐山瀑布)
About the two characters
- 銀
- silver
- 河
- river; in older Chinese, the Yellow River
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