Help with names for ancient Chinese novel characters
imo, none of these “terms” are suitable for male name.


  sources to find authentic ancient Chinese names


the proper way is, refer to the four-and-twenty histories (二十四史), in which, there’re biographies (列傳)

here’s the table of content of the 列傳, from the book 後漢書:

https://ctext.org/hou-han-shu/lie-zhuan/zh

you may grep some names from it, and, these are authentic names of 漢 dynasty :)

the second way is, read tales and notes (小說筆記). that, these books recorded numerous stories, and each story mentioned names of their characters.

here’s two excerpts “宋名臣言行錄” &amp; “六科舊僚題名”, from the book 水東日記:

https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?if=gb&amp;chapter=755528

https://ctext.org/wiki.pl?if=gb&amp;chapter=491456

have fun :)