Names

The standard is to supply, through the elemental nature of the characters in the name, whatever element the child's chart lacks. The element carried by the sound and the stroke counts are weighed alongside it. You do not start from characters with pleasant meanings — you first decide which energy this child needs, then choose among the characters that carry it.

Yes. In that case only the element of the sound, how the syllables sit together, and how easily the name is spoken are weighed. What drops out is the part that fills a missing element through the characters, so if you want the name to help balance the chart, settle the characters as well.

They are the list of Chinese characters the Supreme Court of Korea permits on a birth registration. A character outside that list cannot be registered as a name. Every character suggested on this screen is drawn from within the list, so it can be filed as it stands.