Entry № 11620 · Chinese origin

Xuanji Xuanji — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ SHWAN-jee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Chinese
Meaning
"Tang poetess-courtesan-Daoist priestess"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (Chinese)

A name that means "tang poetess-courtesan-daoist priestess".

Xuanji (玄機) means "mysterious mechanism" — a Daoist term. Yu Xuanji (c. 840-c. 868) was the Tang Dynasty poetess whose brief, brilliant, and turbulent life made her legendary.

Featured in the Quan Tangshi (Complete Tang Poems).

Tang poetess-courtesan-Daoist priestess — a Chinese name.

The name in its native script.

玄機
Transliteration
Xuánjī
Pronunciation
/ ˈʃwæn.dʒi /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Xuanji stands.

Xuanji does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Xuanjis before her.

Real people
Yu Xuanji
Tang Dynasty poetess.
c. 840 – c. 868
In fiction
Xuanji
Quan Tangshi.

Names connected to Xuanji.

The number behind Xuanji.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Xuanji reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.