China Naming Network - Almanac query - What does the Yi name Achashha mean?
What does the Yi name Achashha mean?
This has no concrete meaning. Ashaga is a girl's name. Generally, girls' names will be followed by a tick, and boys' names will be followed by a provocation. Yi people usually know whether it is a man or a woman when they hear the name. In some branches of the Yi nationality, the eldest daughter is called Ayiga and the second daughter is called Ajiaga.
Yi people:
Yi nationality is the sixth largest minority in China, and its national language is Yi language, which belongs to the Yi branch of Tibeto-Burman language family of Sino-Tibetan language family. There are six dialects in North, East, South, Southeast, West and China, including five sub-dialects and twenty-five dialects. Yi people are mainly distributed between the plateaus and coastal hills in Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou and Guangxi provinces, and mainly gather in Chuxiong, Honghe, Liangshan, Bijie, Liupanshui and Anshun. Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture is the largest Yi inhabited area in China.