Y worry about the middle name? Try to "not follow" the rules, who knows, mayb is ok. If still being force to follow, you may play around with different slength of cantonese/mandarin/hokkien/hakka.. watever that can give a better sound.

I let my PIL get sifu to tailor the name based on date of birth. But the name they given us.. gosh.. hard to call and funny too. None of it sound normal. The 1st superb best name given is "Hoi Foon" and my hubby surname is Koh.. so put together will end up "Call handphone".
So we decide to go for 2nd superb name. Still another "ulu" name.

This post has been edited by cc980024: Aug 10 2015, 04:27 PM

Mine given the "Hoi" is sea (laut in BM)

Haha.. more stroke in writing means let the child give up to write their name.

Am ok with the word "hoi" but the 1 given to my son (by sifu) is "hoi foon".. kinda hard to call.
Of coz this name created for the reason to counter the kid's character (based on DOB). The name "Hoi Foon" to get the child to have a big heart (as if ocean) and forgiving (foon = foon shue; not the happy foonhei).
But though I didn't pick this name, my child infact never behave kecik hati (quite generous in giving) and dun seem like can get angry at all.

My son last name having 14 strokes. He end up writing English name on all his books except chinese subject. He told us that chinese writing is informal in this country, wait until his IC reflect those chinese character, then only he will start to write more (good excuse).