Tsoi

//tsʰɔɪ// name

name ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from Cantonese.
  2. 2
    A surname from Korean.

    "Anastasiia Fedorova (15 August 2017), “Remembering Viktor Tsoi: why the rebellious rock poet is still a hero for our time”, in New East Digital Archive: “Tsoi was a true icon for the last generation who spent their adolescence and youth in the Soviet era. My older brother, born in 1979, had Tsoi’s black and white portrait pinned to the wall. This poster, in fact, is one of my earliest childhood memories.”"

Example

More examples

"Atón:wa and Tsoié:'on are our godparents."

Etymology

Variant of Choi.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.