(fallen london stamps by anyway for the curious, the name I was sweating over was Xiùfēng (琇枫/琇楓, lit. "jade maple") which without the tone marks and characters can be mistaken for
- a district of the city of Guilin in China
- a character in a Chinese fantasy novel
- a 20th century Chinese politician
(incidentally, all three of these are actually the same words (秀峰, lit. "jade summit") - I'm unsure if this is because 秀峰 was a common name to begin with or if one inspired the others.)
I also came across a few uses of "Xiufeng" (no tone marks or characters, so unsure what the actual words are) as a feminine name, including an elderly woman who was seemingly dead, but woke up and climbed out of her coffin after six days, spooking her relatives in the process. which is an actually incredible thing that I learned is possible in reality I guess
However, a day before the burial, the relatives were terrified to discover that her body was no longer in the coffin. They searched and found her cooking in the kitchen.
When she was found she said: “I slept for a long time. After waking up, I felt so hungry and wanted to cook something to eat. I pushed the lid for a long time to climb out."
yeah that's fair
