Entry № 11955 · Chinese origin

Zhaojun Zhaojun — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ JAOW-joon /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Chinese
Meaning
"Han beauty sent to marry the Xiongnu"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Chinese)

A name that means "han beauty sent to marry the xiongnu".

Zhaojun (昭君) means "shining sovereign." Wang Zhaojun (c. 50 BCE-) was one of the Four Beauties of ancient China — a Han Dynasty palace lady sent in 33 BCE as a diplomatic bride to Huhanye Chanyu of the Xiongnu, sealing 60 years of peace between Han China and the steppes. Her beauty was so great that geese flying overhead, distracted, forgot to flap and fell from the sky — earning her the epithet "the Falling Geese."

The Falling Geese.

The name in its native script.

昭君
Transliteration
Zhāojūn
Pronunciation
/ ˈdʒaʊ.dʒʌn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Zhaojun stands.

Zhaojun 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.

Zhaojuns before her.

Real people
Wang Zhaojun
Han Dynasty diplomatic bride.
c. 50 BCE – ?
In fiction
Zhaojun
Opera Wang Zhaojun.

Names connected to Zhaojun.

The number behind Zhaojun.

5

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Zhaojun reduce to 5, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.