Please recommend a nickname or english name for Minji!!

Agree. You shouldn’t change it in my opinion.
Minnie or JiJi/GiGi for her nickname.

I just happened to watch a programme with a woman named Minji and now I've heard it pronounced, I think you might be worrying too much. With the stress on the Ji it wouldn't make me think minge.

I would shorten it to Min. I know several Asian women called that.

Mitzi can be pronounced Mitza is nice.

Mindy would strike a chord with teen girls as it’s the name of character in Emily in Paris, which is very popular at the moment. The actress who plays her (Ashley Park) is Korean-American, although the character is Chinese.

As seen on this thread slang terms can be quite location specific so if you can might be worth asking someone from the area you're planning to move to, ideally someone who is or can check with a teenager, who will be able to give you a sense of the likely reaction to different names. I'd add that spelling it differently isn't necessarily going to help - Minzi is lovely but if the way it's pronounced is too close to minge then kids will almost certainly react the same way.

Min

I know a couple (various full names, it’s just a nick name)

Or Minnie to start if she’s little

Probably because it’s not my job to educate you, and you seem unnecessarily self-important - you can’t be bothered to read earlier posts on the thread, you keep derailing the thread with your posts and questions that are irrelevant to the OP, and you keep announcing your categorising of Scots as a dialect or language as if your opinion is some kind expert opinion, when it’s very clear you know very little about it.

And now you’re calling me names.

but that’s ok cos you aren’t trying to be deliberately insulting.

🙄

@FurAndFeathers You misunderstand — I meant I was unaware until I read a post on this thread.
I fail to see why you are so aggressive in your responses. Not all posters are aware of all issues, most are trying to be helpful to the OP.
You have added to my, and probably others, education.
Like many, I have health issues and am not as abreast of the news as I once was and attempting to hit me over the head with a mallet makes few friends. I have Scottish friends and have admired the Scottish culture and have not deliberately insulted it.

You’re the expert. I’m sure if you try very hard you could find the answers to your questions.
the magical internet might help 🙄

@FurAndFeathers Upon further consideration, and after reading documents in Scots, then I would concede Scots is similar to Pidgin English, though easier to comprehend. (I have a little experience with the latter from my studies in sociology-linguistics.
As a matter of interest, is one able to study the Scot’s language? Are there online courses? It would be a useful complement to my M English in reading medieval documents, my Scots heritage ending only a few generations after Malcolm III.

You can class Scots however you like 🤷‍♀️

The Scottish government recognises it as one of Scotland’s 3 official languages spoke by over 1.5 million people. The European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages classes it as a language.

But sure, you’ve decided it’s an English dialect (despite being spoken nowhere in England). I’m sure you’re the expert 🙄. You’re certainly determined to be offensive to millions of Scots speakers

Minnie being slang for vagina is mentioned on the first page of this thread. You could try reading it.

@FurAndFeathers I did not mean to offend. I meant that I understood Gaelic was the native/ethnic language of Scotland. There is, of course, dialectal Scots, which I would not class as an independent “language”, anymore than the score of English dialects.
Until this post I had never heard of Minnie being slang for vagina and the increasing popularity of the name rather presumes others aren’t aware of this either.

I think she's got a beautiful name!

I would stick with her given name - she is Minji.

If you’re not sure that Scots is a language, you probably shouldn’t comment. If it helps, you can use the magical inter web to check your facts before you try and correct others www.gov.scot/policies/languages/scots/ It’s recognised by the Scottish government and the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages.
Ever heard of Rabbie Burns? Quite a well know Scots poet

And you think common UK slang for vagina is fine as a name?
helpful

@FurAndFeathers Mingey is also common slang in NZ ( and probably in Oz) to mean stinger or mean. This is amongst English speakers! I’m not sure “Scot” is a language is it? So probably used by English speaking Scots.
OP I’d avoid any variations of minge/mingey.
I get feeling that teenagers would find Minnie attractive.

I'd keep her original name but establish a nickname - Minnie, Gigi/Jiji, Zizi, Zizzi...

Agree, keep the pronunciation and tweak the spelling to Minzi or Minzy. Prefer Minzi of the two, but either is fine.

I hope she settles in well and enjoys school.

I suspect it’s pronounced min zhyee (a soft G like in French pronunciation rather than either a hard g sound or a zzz sound).

Id use the z not the g in her full name and would nickname Gigi

Sorry, Minzi

Another vote for Minzy

I think maybe let your daughter pick the name she prefers.

Min or Minzy to stay close to her actual name.

Some school children are idiots and will try to find a way to put someone down. Minge would be one way to do this. Just because some children called Dick etc are fine with it doesn't mean children don't come out of secondary school hating their experience there.

There is also an old classic MN thread with "your minge" in it if you have been here a while.

Is it originally spelled Min Jee?