What Does My Name Mean?

What does the Vietnamese name Tran(w/ this ^ mark ontop of the A) mean?

• i have a project 2 do in my english class nd i needed 2 find the *>"meaning,origin,other ways of my name in other country"<*. my name i think that it mean SNAKE i think but i'm not sure so if any of u outthere no any info bout my name plz me it might help alot nd REMEMBER "MY NAME, ON TOP OF THE 'A' IT HAVE THIS SIGN ( ^ ) ON TOP OF IT" o nd also it a FIRST NAME not a LAST NAME

• Answer:

  Trân is a nice name for girls in Vietnam. If it is Trần, then it's a very popular last name. My friend has both for her first and last name. She usually puts the name "Tran Tran" on her test. (Sounds kind of cute :D) In Vietnamese (tiếng Việt), Trân means nothing, but in Chinese-Vietnamese (Hán Việt), it means "quý" (valuable). Therefore, you can surely translate it into Chinese with the same meaning. But you should ask someone else cause I don't speak Chinese. A lot of people missunderstand that "Trân" means pearl. That's because the word "Trân" (valuable) and "Châu" (pearl) usually go together in Chinese-Vietnamese. I don't think your name has anything that relates to "snake" '_' The mark ^ above is not an accent mark. It is to change the way the letter "a" is pronounced. The "a" in Vietnamese is pronounced like /ɑ/ in English, but the "â" is pronounced like /ə/. Hope that helped on you project :) Oh by the way, let me guess, is your last name "Dang" (Đặng)?