Entry № 11506 · Chinese origin

Wenji Wenji — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ WUN-jee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Chinese
Meaning
"Han poet kidnapped by the Xiongnu"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Chinese)

A name that means "han poet kidnapped by the xiongnu".

Wenji (文姬) — "refined daughter." Cai Wenji (c. 177-c. 250) was the Han Dynasty poet, calligrapher, and musician. Her Eighteen Songs of a Nomad Flute and Poems of Grief and Anger are among the most haunting works of classical Chinese literature.

Refined daughter. Kidnapped by the Xiongnu for 12 years; ransomed back but had to leave her sons.

The name in its native script.

文姬
Transliteration
Wénjī
Pronunciation
/ ˈwʌn.dʒi /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Wenji stands.

Wenji 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.

Wenjis before her.

Real people
Cai Wenji
Han Dynasty poet.
c. 177 – c. 250
In fiction
Wenji
Cao Yu's The Return of Cai Wenji.
1959

Names connected to Wenji.

The number behind Wenji.

7

The Seeker

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