HARI in Chinese

I came to know today What it means to be HARI in China :)

When i was having my lunch with my frieds here in Beijing, Bi Hao and Yuanh hang. I asked them what dose thier name signify. Bi Hao explained that in chinese Bi is for blue and hao is for large volume of water. Then i posed the same question to Yuan, he told me in chinese yuan is long distance and hang is to sail, so effectively it means to sail long distance.

So in Chinese every name has a meaning, unlike in India whrere most of us are named after a god or godesses. In Chinese the way first name and last name are organized is also very different from that of west or India. For example, Yaun is actually the last name and Haung is his first name, but most of us in U.S or India see it the other way round. This is so privalent that we even reverese-spell Chao Mian which is actually Main Chao, in Chinees Main is for noodels and Chao is a way of preparition.

After this intersting conversation i was very curious to know if there is any meaning for my name in Chinese, and HA HA there is and it is actually HA HA HA .. well my good friend Bi Hao told me that in Chinese "Ha" signifies laughter and "ri" signifies something good, luck and happnies, so HARI is good, happnies and laughter.