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Back in 1994 my mother and I took a trip to Hong Kong to visit my grandfather, a US ex-pat, that lived there. She had this chop commissioned while we were visiting.

Unfortunately, I don't have any way to determine what she had asked to be engraved, as she had a stroke about 8 years ago and cannot remember the stamp. All I know is that it is soapstone and I thought it would be her name "Lynne" or her family name "Curran" or the combination "Lynne Curran".

When I searched for her name "Lynne", I found 琳恩. The first symbol, or part of it, 琳 恩 seems to be incorporated into the chop.

Thank you for any help that can be provided.

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    It's 莉 (lì), which corresponds to the "Ly" part.
    – Firmin Martin
    Commented Oct 3, 2020 at 22:59
  • When we wanted name our daughter, my wife decided her English/local name as Jasmine Amanda, naturally, I name her 茉莉 as her Chinese name. Maybe your mother had a Chinese name not related to Lynne at all as "meaningful" is always the priority for Chinese names. Maybe you can search your mother's things: there might be a piece of paper with her Chinese name written and explaining the meaning as I understand this is a practice for Hong Kong seal carver to foreigners.
    – James Liu 刘老师
    Commented Oct 4, 2020 at 10:23
  • These 2 silks are very old. My Grandpa brought them back from Japan in the 40’s (i.sstatic.net/Mn1EH.jpg) (i.sstatic.net/LaIEX.jpg) (i.sstatic.net/xWUAj.jpg)
    – Terri
    Commented Nov 19, 2020 at 18:02

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the character is 莉 (u+8389), sound file; it’s the transliteration of “lynne”.

“莉” originally means grass (艸); later used for white jasmine as in “茉莉”.

http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/lexi-mf/search.php?word=莉

imo, it’s quite good, for female name 😸

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