haikeyi

haikeyi
November 18, 2008 at 08:39 PM posted in General Discussion

can anybody tell me what my chinese name means?

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haikeyi
November 20, 2008 at 05:17 PM

The friend who gave me the name compared it with feichanghao which I know means "very good." She said hai keyi meant "good enough" and laughed.

I'm having trouble with the word "hai." which I naively take to mean "still" so I thought it could mean "still can."

mei you = no have

hai you = still have. I hear this expression a lot on TV but can never guess the context.

hai mei you = still no have?

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xiaohu
November 20, 2008 at 07:07 AM

haikeyi

Sure it's 还可以, meaning "okay", "passable".  Did you want to know because you don't know what it means, or you thought it would be fun for us to guess?

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Joachim
November 18, 2008 at 09:37 PM

It probably means 还可以 "It's ok", "still can".