is this name a man's name or woman's name? Chinese I believe

[Dacalo]

Yen Lam

Is this a male or a female name? I am writing a cover letter and I dont know how I should address this person.

BTW, no phone number, just email posted at my college job listing

 

[minendo]

To whom it concerns:

 

[Imdmn04]

you cant tell just by the pronouciation, cuz there are different characters meaning different things that are under the same pronouciation.
even if u have the chinese characters instead of the pronouciation, u can only make a probable guess based on the meaning of the characters.

 

[BigSmooth]

I know several females named Yen; however, I would not advise guessing. Use a generic term like the one minendo suggested.

 

[gopunk]

To the respected Lam

 

[minendo]

Originally posted by: gopunk
To the respected Lam

Too sarcastic. If I received that it would go straight to the trash.

 

[ChinamanatNCSU]

dude, that name could go either way...in fact, iirc most chinese names don't denote gender. My sister and I have the same surname (Liu), and the same middle name (Hsien) that comes from some list that's repeated every half dozen generations or so, but the last characters in our names (Fei and Shuen) were picked by our parents b/c they sounded nice or for some random reason. So, can you distinguish between Liu Hsien Fei and Liu Hsien Shuen?

Sorry for the OT little spiel, imo just address it "Dear Yen Lam",

 

[prodigy]

Impossible to tell, you can use "Dear Sir or Madam"

 

[Dacalo]

thank you everyone!

 

[fatbaby]

Its probably female...I know a couple chinese girls named yen.

 

[0roo0roo]

yea unknowable. inexact or bad english translation of names allows for several different chinese characters to be spelled one way in english sometimes.

 

[gopunk]

Originally posted by: minendo

Originally posted by: gopunk
To the respected Lam

Too sarcastic. If I received that it would go straight to the trash.

really, i would read it...