Talk:Jennifer 8. Lee

message: As far as I know, 8 means prosperity started in Cantonese-speaking areas. Chinese character "八" pronounces ha in Cantonese which is the same as "發" fah (prosperous). People in Hong Kong pay top dollars to reserve license plates that has one or multiple 8s in it. Another good number is 168 which sounds like "一路發" (prosperity all the way). In Cantonese, "發達" means "make a fortune". This term is not so widely used in many other dialects. Though "發財" (also "make a fortune") is used in most areas.
* wiktionary:八
** Cantonese: baat3
** Mandarin: bā
** Min Nam (Taiwan): peh (/p/ pronounces like /b/ in English)
* wiktionary:發
** Cantonese: faat3
** Mandarin: fā
** Min Nam (Taiwan): hoat (sounds like "hwa")
This custom migrated to other parts of the Chinese-speaking world in the 70s or 80s. -- Toytoy 16:38, Nov 14, 2004 (UTC)
===East Asian names that contain numbers===
For me this section is the most interesting part of the article and probably deserves to be made an article in its own right. I went and added Sichuan and Shikoku under the "four" sub-heading but after doing so thought maybe I shouldn't have as the rest of the entries are people's names and not geographical names. Anyway, I've left them in for now.
If we do make it a separate article we should decide whether we want to limit it to just people's names. It does seem to me that the use of numbers in East Asian geographical names is interestingly different to the situation in English in that while we have numbers in names that are attached to distances such as Three Mile Island we don't have names with such stark number references as three rivers (Sichuan).
Oska 05:30, Dec 5, 2004 (UTC)
: Unless you have a good reason, it is usually not a good idea to remove a previous section of discussion. -- Toytoy 06:19, Dec 5, 2004 (UTC)
Dup sig added after response that interrupted it.
:: Sorry, I really didn't mean to do that. Couldn't understand your comment until I went back and looked at that particular revision. Thanks for fixing it. Oska 00:55, Dec 28, 2004 (UTC)
: You may want to separate people and geographical names. Two defferent articles is a good solution. -- Toytoy 06:19, Dec 5, 2004 (UTC)
:: Agreed! I have moved the list to List of personal names that contain numbers. That page is open to all languages though I think Asian names will make up most of it. Regarding place names, I think there are just too many of them to make a page. Some unusual place names that contain numbers are already listed at List of interesting or unusual place names; those entries are marked with the number 5.
:: Still if someone wishes to make such a page, here is a reference copy of Oska's first two location name edits; please remove them from the talk page if they end up elsewhere:
 
* Chinese
** Sichuan (四川), "four rivers" - a province in eastern China
* Japanese
** Shikoku (四国), "four provinces" - one of the major Japanese islands
::Lawrence Lavigne 09:51, Dec 5, 2004 (UTC)
::* No reason to remove them, and some not to. Please do add a note in this section, tho, if you know they appear elsewhere in en: WP main namespace.  --Jerzy•t 20:46, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Meaning of 8

message: For me this section is the most interesting part of the article and probably deserves to be made an article in its own right. I went and added Sichuan and Shikoku under the "four" sub-heading but after doing so thought maybe I shouldn't have as the rest of the entries are people's names and not geographical names. Anyway, I've left them in for now.
If we do make it a separate article we should decide whether we want to limit it to just people's names. It does seem to me that the use of numbers in East Asian geographical names is interestingly different to the situation in English in that while we have numbers in names that are attached to distances such as Three Mile Island we don't have names with such stark number references as three rivers (Sichuan).
Oska 05:30, Dec 5, 2004 (UTC)
: Unless you have a good reason, it is usually not a good idea to remove a previous section of discussion. -- Toytoy 06:19, Dec 5, 2004 (UTC)
Dup sig added after response that interrupted it.
:: Sorry, I really didn't mean to do that. Couldn't understand your comment until I went back and looked at that particular revision. Thanks for fixing it. Oska 00:55, Dec 28, 2004 (UTC)
: You may want to separate people and geographical names. Two defferent articles is a good solution. -- Toytoy 06:19, Dec 5, 2004 (UTC)
:: Agreed! I have moved the list to List of personal names that contain numbers. That page is open to all languages though I think Asian names will make up most of it. Regarding place names, I think there are just too many of them to make a page. Some unusual place names that contain numbers are already listed at List of interesting or unusual place names; those entries are marked with the number 5.
:: Still if someone wishes to make such a page, here is a reference copy of Oska's first two location name edits; please remove them from the talk page if they end up elsewhere:
 
* Chinese
** Sichuan (四川), "four rivers" - a province in eastern China
* Japanese
** Shikoku (四国), "four provinces" - one of the major Japanese islands
::Lawrence Lavigne 09:51, Dec 5, 2004 (UTC)
::* No reason to remove them, and some not to. Please do add a note in this section, tho, if you know they appear elsewhere in en: WP main namespace.  --Jerzy•t 20:46, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: East Asian names that contain numbers

message: This has been mentioned in the blogs, but not in any credible sources, as far as I can tell: Ms. Lee is apparently working on a book, whose working title is The Long March of General Tso: How Chinese Food Became All-American. I would hold off putting this into the article until we get a credible source to confirm this and announce a publication date. --MarkSweep (call me collect) 07:09, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Book project

message: What is her name in Chinese then?  Presumably "李八_", where the final blank is something representing "Jennifer".  What is it?  -- 小? Sorry, no Chinese allowed. 23:44, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it might be 珍 (zhēn). -- 小? Sorry, no Chinese allowed. 22:22, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Found on Internet: the name 李竞. Badagnani (talk) 04:58, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Her Chinese name 

message: :Reformatted for visual clarity of quote.-Jerzy•t 17:35, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: But when my family realized I was one of about 10,000 Jennifer Lees in the United States (at least 70 in New York City, where I'm from) the adoption of a middle initial seemed to be in order. And appealing to Chinese superstition, we arrived at a natural choice: the number 8. My identity has not been confused since. 
"Middle initial" to me suggests English name, not Chinese name.  Doesn't the entry need to be clarified on this point?--Siweiluozi (talk) 18:32, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

text: And is it pronounced out "eight" in English, or is it silent, as in Hen3ry?  KarlM (talk) 10:34, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Isn't the 8 part of her English name only? 

message: There's an article profiling Ms. Lee here:
http://www.womenofchina.cn/Profiles/Writers/206808.jsp
I did not have time to add details from it into the article, but someone else might. --Catch153 (talk) 03:57, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Women of China/Xinhua profile of Ms. Lee

message: Puh-leeze. I have removed all the "party girl" and "sued by landlady" stuff per WP:BLP. Wikipedia is not a tabloid, etc. --JohnnyB256 (talk) 14:12, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: "As much known for parties as bylines"

message: I note that MS. Lee still seems to be an occasional NYTimes contributor, for example  Wwwhatsup (talk) 09:31, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: NY Times

message: 8 is not an abbreviation or an initial, it is a numeral. Is that dot a radix point or a full stop or something else ? It makes it seem like it's floating point, you might as well make it 8.0 or something. Mr. T has no dot after the T although I understand that Mr. is his name and is not an abbreviation for Mister. 64.131.247.186 (talk) 06:54, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: That's how she does it. PPX (talk) 20:40, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

text: Fwiw, 8. was treated as an abbreviated form of eight through centuries of English use, including the extra period. Fell out of favor as a way to save on ink, not out of any semantic argument. — LlywelynII 23:38, 25 April 2022 (UTC)

text: It’s a decimal point. Jenny8lee (talk) 21:56, 19 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Why 8. and not 8 ?