Name Ah Eam

[Andrew Yong]

My grandfather was Ah Mooi (youngest child) most of his life, but his birth certificate shows the name Ah Eam. In Malaysian transcription this would be pronounced /iam/ or /jam/. Can anyone tell me what this hanzi could be?

[Dylan Sung]

Problem is, there are so many characters with the syllable in different tones.

yam1 奄 ? 剡 ? 崦 ?{
yam2 炎 檐 ? 剡 啖 ? 檐 ? ? 阽
yam3 掩 淹 罨 ? ? ? ?R ?? ?
yam4 ?? ? ? 焱 琰 剡 炎 ? 焰 ? ? ? ? ? ? ?? ? ? ?w

My guess is 炎, because I've seen this in a man's name before. What's crucial, I guess, is he was of my father's generation, that is the guy is now almost 70.


http://www.chineselanguage.org/cgi-bin/ ... in,english

Cheers,
Dyl.