Tag: Burmese

Nyunt (Names)
by Hla Min

Updated : June 2025

Names beginning with Nyunt
- Nyunt — ECAFE
- Nyunt Aung — Civil
- Nyunt Aung — Sanchaung
- Nyunt Khin
- Nyunt Lwin
- Nyunt Maung — National Planning
- Nyunt Maung — SPHS Saya
- Nyunt Maung San — Civil
- Nyunt May
- Nyunt Nyunt — Niece of Tommy Saing; Spouse of U Thant Zin / Mawsi
- Nyunt Nyunt Tin — UCC; UN
- Nyunt Nyunt Win — Physics; Registrar of RASU; Spouse : U Ko Lay (RUBC Gold, Chief Editor of WPD)
- Nyunt Oo
- Nyunt Pe — EP68
- Nyunt Sein
- Nyunt Shwe — Brother of Han Tun
- Nyunt Soe — Swimming Coach; Brother of Willie Soe Maung
- Nyunt Swe
- Nyunt Than — M86, UCC, BADA, NorCal RITAA
- Nyunt Thaung
- Nyunt Thein, Dr.
- Nyunt Tin — M70, RIT Table Tennis
- Nyunt Tin, Dr. — First in Burma in 1952; FRCP
- Nyunt Wai, Dr. (Victor) — Physiology Professor
Nyunt Wai (Standing 3rd from Left)
- Nyunt We — Harvard MBA
- Nyunt Win (Eddie, MEHS60) — Spouse : Dr. Marie Yu Khin (MEHS60)
- Nyunt Win — Actor
- Nyunt Win — Associate Professor, Chemistry
- Nyunt Yin — Physics
Names with Nyunt in middle or end
- Aung Kyaw Nyunt, Dr. — High School Luyechun
- Aung Nyunt
- Aung Pe Nyunt — Physics Tuition
- Phaw Kaung Ba Nyunt — Government witness
- Ba Nyunt (E58) — Saya; MOC
- Cho Cho Nyunt — ICST alumni
- Kan Nyunt, Dr. — Compiler of Buddhism Books
- Kan Nyunt, Dr. — Patron, MARB
- Kaung Nyunt — Physics saya, Head of Regional College 2
- Khaing Khaing Nyunt — UCC
- Khin Maung Nyunt, Dr. — History
- Khin Maung Nyunt (C69)
- Khin Nyunt — MI
- Koung Nyunt, Dr. (Kogyi Koung) — A67, Author, New Zealand
- Kyaw Nyunt, Dr. — Maths
- Kyaw Nyunt, Dr. — BADA
- Kyaw Nyunt — Ambassador; Chair of Union Bank
- Kyaw Nyunt (M69) — Tennis
- Kyaw Nyunt Koe, Dr. (Robert)
- Maung Maung Nyunt — MOC, Total
- Min Min Nyunt –– Dentist
- Myo Nyunt — Maths; IFL
- Myo Nyunt — C69; RIT Track and Field
- Pe Nyun, Dr. — Pediatric Surgeon; RUBC Captain & Gold
- San Nyunt
- Saw Nyunt
- Sein Nyunt — SPHS
- Soe Nyunt — RUBC
- Soe Nyunt — Maths
- Soe Nyunt Oo, Dr.
- Than Nyun, Dr. (George) — RUBC, Eco, Minister
- Ah Yan Than Nyunt
- Thaung Nyunt — M87, NorCal RITAA
- Thein Nyunt — Religious Affairs; Sunlun
- Thiri Nyunt We — UCC
- Tin Maung Nyunt — M60, M/Ag; President of RIT Thaing
- Tin Maung Nyunt — Met70
- Tin Nyunt — Actor
- Tin Nyunt — Champion
- Tin Nyunt — Industrial Management
- Tin Nyunt –– Author, Blogger
- Toe Nyunt (Ted) — Actor; Shwe Gaung Byaung
- Win Nyunt — Actor
- Win Nyunt — Brother of Tin Maung Nyunt
- Zaw Nyunt
- Zin Mar Nyunt
June 2, 2025
Pe (Names)
by Hla Min

Updated : June 2025
- Pe Aung Lin (EE76)
- Pe Han Tun (M69)
- Pe Kan Kaung — Fictitious character
- Pe Khin — Diplomat
- Pe Khin — Burma Soccer Selected
- Pe Maung Khin (EE76)
- Pe Maung Tin — Professor of Pali; Proposed to have a separate Burmese Department; Star students include ICS U Sein Tin (Theikpan Maung Wa), U Thein Han (Zawgyi) and U Wun (Minthuwun)
- Pe Nyun, Dr. — Pediatric Surgeon. He led the team including Dr. Harry Saing (Past Captain and Gold of RUBC, Multiple athlete) at RCH to operate the first set of Burmese conjoined twins (Ma Nan Soe and Ma Nan San).
Pe Nyun
- Pe Than
- Pe Than Hlaing (EE76)
- Pe Than Tin, Dr.
- Pe Than Maung, Dr. — Tennis champion in college,; Senior ophthalmologist; Spearheaded Burma’s Trachoma Campaign as team leader.
- Pe Thaw — Father of Dr. Zin Aung; Succeeded U Khin Zaw (“K”) as Director of BBS
- Prof.
- Pe Thein, Dr. — in succession served as Professor and Head of Department of Physiology, Institute of Medicine Mandalay; Director General of Health; Director General of Medical Education.
  In 1989, was the Minister of Health with the rank of colonel, in General Saw Maung’s cabinet.
- Pe Thein — Cartoonist
- Pe Thein — Navy rower; Martial arts
- Pe Thet Khin, Dr. — Minister of Health.
- Pe Tin — My Burmese teacher in V(D) and my class teacher in VI(D)
- Pe Win, Prof. — FRCP Edinburgh, Head of the Department of Medicine Mandalay; He was from the famous Meah family; Siblings : (a) Dr. U Ne Win FRCPsych, pioneer of psychiatry in Burma. Served as both head of department of psychiatry Institute of Medicine I as well as Medical Superintendent of the Psychiatric Hospital (b) Prof. Daw Hnin Yee FRCP Edin Professor and Head of Medicine Institute of Medicine 1 (c) Dr. Daw Win May DO senior ophthalmologist.
- Aung Kyaw Pe (EP69) –, Early user at UCC along with Saya U Tin Swe
- Aung Pe — High ranking official in the BSPP government.
- Ba Pe — Politician
- Chit Pe
- Hla Pe, Dr. — Retired Professor of Burmese at the London School of Asian and Oriental Studies; Wrote a book on Burmese Proverbs.
- Myint Pe — Comedian, actor and director
- Myint Pe (M72) — Cartoonist, Lushwin daw and vocalist; Co-founder of RIT Cartoon Box
- Nyunt Pe
- Reggie Ba Pe, Dr. — Medical doctor and specialist
- Saw Pe
- Than Pe, Commodore — Captain and RUBC Gold; Succeeded Sir Arthur Eggar as President of RUBC; Member of the Revolutionary Council; Minister for Heath and Education’; First member of RC to pass away
- Than Pe Lay — Vocalist and actor
- Victor Pe Win (A60)
- Win Pe — Mya Zin
- Win Pe — Maung Swan Yi
- Win Pe — ICST
- Win Pe (M70) — Brother of Dr Nyi Nyi
June 2, 2025
Thane / Thein (Names)
by Hla Min

Updated : June 2025

TOKM

Thane
- Thane Myint (PBRS, DSA) Bohmu, Air Force; UN; Led Burma Olympic Team to 1988 Olympics in Seoul.
  Spouse : Daw Khin Than Nu (Glory Maung, EC70)
- Thane Oke Kyaw Myint, Dr. — Pediatrician; RCH; UNICEF; Founder of Alumni from Myanmar IM
- Thane Toe Thane, Dr. — USA;Father: Aung Thane
Thein
- Thein Aung (Met72) — Studied Body Building under Bohmu Maung Maung (Maung Bamar); Mr. RIT in 1968 and was awarded a “Sa Lwei Thaing“; Organizer of the very first SPZP in 2000.
- Thein Aung (M72) would jokingly differentiate the two Thein Aung (from the Class of 72) as :
  I am Set Hmu — Maung Thein Aung. He is Set Hmu Maung — Thein Aung.
- Thein Aung— Saya; Institute of Economics; Taught Industrial Management at RIT
- Thein Aung (Micky, SPHS59, GBNF) — RUBC Gold; Physics Saya at RASU; Movednto private industry
- Thein Han — Former Systems Engineer, IBM Burma
- Thein Han — Zawgyi; Laureate Poet; Khit San Sar Pay; Chief Librarian, RU Central Library
- Thein Han (EE70)
- Thein Han, Dr. — IM79
- Thein Hlaing
- “Naga” Thein Hlaing, Dr. — Surgeon
- Thein Hlyne, Dr. — Professor, Mining Engineering; Patron, RIT Buddhist Association
- Thein Htut (EE) — UCC
- Thein Htut, Dr. (IM61) — RUBC Gold; Australia; Parents: Colonel Min Sein, Daw Yin May
- Thein Htut, Dr. (Clement) — Principal, Dental College; Spouse : Tin May Lwin (UCC, DCS, ICST)
- U Thein Kyaing (T72) — Spouse : Dr. Tin Tin Hlaing
- U Thein Kyaw
- Thein Lwin (Stanley, SPHS63)
- Thein Lwin (GBNF) — EESaya; Alumnus of Lehigh University; Taught at RIT and Singapore Polytechnic.
  President of the RIT Badminton Association; Spouse : May Than Nwe (Physics)
- Thein Lwin — MD; MP
- Thein Maung — Actor, Academy Award winner
- Thein Maung — Justice
- Thein Maung (M69, GBNF) — Succumbed to Covid
- Thein Maung, Dr. — EENT
- Thein Ngwe (Ko Thein – Tokyo, ChE76) — Co-founder, RITAJ
- Thein Nyunt — Secretary, Religious Affairs; Children : Dr. Soe Min Oo / Soe Aung, Tekkatho Shwe Yi Win (GBNF), Soe Myint (Pro-Rector of ICST, GBNF), Soe Nyunt
- Thein Oo — Taught at IE, UCC, DCS and ICST; Co-founded MCI; Founded Ace; Spouse : Than Than Tint
- Thein Oo Po Saw (Ernest ) — Physics, DSA
- Thein Pe
- Thein Pe Myint — Author, Politician; Spouse : Khin Kyi Kyi
- Thein Sein — Former President
- Thein Swe (EP69, GBNF)) — 3rd BE Luyechun; Spouse : Dolly Sein (EP72, GBNF)
- Thein Toe, Dr. — Director, Medical Research; UK; Spouse: Khin Thitsar
- Thein Toe (EC66) — MOC
- Thein Tun, Dr. (SPHS61, EP67) — EPC
- Thein Tun — Bohmu, Navy
- Thein Wa, Daw — Bookshop
- Thein Wai, Dr. (SPHS63) — 5th in Burma; MC2; USA
- Thein Win (Eugene) — Former Karate champion
- Thein Win, Dr. — MC2, Luyechun
- Thein Yin
- Thein Zaw (EC68, GBNF) — Ah Yoke
- Thein Zaw Lwin (GBNF) — USA
Names with Thane or Thein in Middle and End
- Aung Thane
- Aung Thein
- Aung Thein
- Ba Thein
- Chit Thein
- Hla Thein
- Hmi Hmi Thane
- Khin Thein
- Kyaw Min Thein
- Kyaw Mya Thein
- Kyaw Thein
- Lin Thein Maung
- Min Thein
- Mya Thein
- Myat Thein
- Myint Thein
- Myint Thein Lwin
- Myo Thein
- Nyunt Thein
- Paw Thein
- San Myint Thane
- San Thein
- Saw Thein
- Saw Mya Thein
- Saw Win Thane
- Tin Thein
- Tun Thein
- Win Thein
- Win Thein Maung
- Win Thein Zaw
June 2, 2025
Y (Names)
by Hla Min

Updated : June 2025

Yan
- Yan Aung — Actor
- Yan Aung — Teacher; Indigenous medicine
- Yan Aung — Writer
- Yan Gyi Aung
- Yan Naing, Bo — Thirty Comrades; Spouse : Sayama Daw Tinsa Maw Naing (English)
- Yan Naing Lwin, Dr. — Professor Emeritus of Physics; Western Illinois University; Father : Saya U Ba Lwin (Myoma)
- Yan Shin (Hardy) — RUBC; Brother: San Maung (Gerald)
Ye
- Ye Aung (Actor)
- Ye Chit
- Ye Chit Pe (Retired BG, MEHS64, M70)
- Ye Gaung (Minister)
- Ye Gaung (EE80, May Recording Studio); Spouse : Daw Phyu Phyu
- Ye Htoon
- Ye Htun
- Ye Htut
- Ye Htut Aung (First batch of ICST)
- Ye Khaung (Student Political Party at the University of Rangoon)
- Ye Lwin (GBNF, AGTI, BE) — Bass Guitarist and Leader of E-Machine & Myizzima Hlaing
- Ye Myint, Dr. (UK) — Parents : U Tin U, Dr. Khin Kyi Nyunt; Spouse : Daw San San Aye
Ye Myint
- Ye Myint, Dr. — Burma’s second cardiac surgeon; First was the late Dr. Khin Maung Thaw
- Ye Myint, Dr. — Professor, Renowned laparoscopic surgeon
- Ye Myint (ChE70) — Taught at RIT; Moved to Singapore); Donated to RIT and ChE.
- Ye Myint (EE72) –Father : U Ba Toke; Accompanied Sayagyi to SPZP-2000 held in the USA
- Ye Myint (B.Com) — Son : Zayanda; Classmate : Uzin Chan Min.
- Ye Myint Kyaw (Prof. , Pen name Linga Ye Kyaw, Paediatrician) — Author of over 20 books, script write for the three books made into movies. Regular contributor of both medical and non medical topics
- Ye Sint (Physics) — Saya; Past VP of TBSA; Editor of Dhammananda Newsletter; Editor for “Paying Homage to Sayadaw U Silananda”; Spouse Nu Nu Yee
- Ye Swe — Boxer
- Ye Tint — Boxer
- Ye Win — See Post
- Ye Wint — Father: Zaw Myint
- Ye Yint — Cinema
Yee
- Yee Yee, Daw
- Yee Yee Myint, Daw
Yi
- Yi Thwe Dr., (SPHS65, SPHS) — Father: Saw Ba Hein; Spouse: Kyi Kyi Hla
- Yi Yi , Daw (PBRS) — Sayama
- Yi Yi, Dr. Daw (Botany) — Sayama
- Yi Yi Aung, Daw (EC67) — Spouse: Win Kyaing (M67)
- Yi Yi Khaing, Daw (Vilma, ChE69) — Spouse: Tint Swe (ChE66)
- Yi Yi Chit Maung, Dr. Daw — Father; Chit Maung
Yin — See Post
- Yin Kyi, Daw (T61) — Pioneer female engineering graduate
- Yin Kywe, Daw — Spouse : Soe Myint (UCC, ICST)
- Yin Maung — Rowed for Faculty of Engineering; Senior Novices Winner
- Yin Maung, Maung — Character in the first Burmese novel by James Hla Kyaw
- Yin Maung — Pen name of Saya Dr. Taing Oke
- Yin Maung, Okpo Maung — Pen name of Saya U Aung Myaing
- Yin May, Dr. Daw — Triple Fellow; Spouse: Colonel Min Sein
- Yin Nu, Daw — Spouse: Ohn Kyaw
- Yin Nu, Daw — Pen name: Nu Yin; Author
- Yin Sein (Caesar Yang, SPHS, AGTI, BE, BBS) — First batch of GTI-RIT Bridge Program
- Yin Yin Aung, Dr. — , Lynn Dental; Spouse: Sein Aung Lynn
- Yin Yin Mya, Daw — Head of RIT English Department ; Moved to Australia
- Yin Yin Nwe, Dr. Daw (Geology) — Parents: Sao Sai Mong, Mi Mi Khaing
- Yin Yin Waing, Daw
Yone
- Yone Sein
- Yone Mo — RIT Rector
- Yone Way — Tuition Saya
Yu — See Post
- Yu Beng (Tan, Benny Tan, MEHS64, M70) — Entrepreneur; Organizer; Founding member of RIT Alumni International; Co-chair of SPZP-2000; Multiple Golden Sponsor; Past President of BAPS
- Yu Hlaing, Daw
- Yu Htay (Chemistry) — Saya
- Yu Khin — Registrar and Dean of Rangoon University; Principal of IFL; Former Burma Doubles Champion in Badminton; Spouse : Daw Phay; Children: Marie, Richard
- Yu Khin — CSO; Programmer for the Population Census Data Processing done at UCC)
- Yu Khin Myint
- Yu Sein (Tan, Selwyn Tan, MEHS6) — Vocalist
- Yu Swan (M67) — Don Min expert; Spouse: Tin Tin Myint; “Pon Chan Chan” gatherings in Singapore
- Yu Yu Lwin, Daw — Retired from Motion Pictures Corporation
- Yuzana — Flower
- Yuzana — Carlton Cinema; Owned by U Chit Maung
- Yuzana Bo Ni, Daw — UCC
June 2, 2025
Z (Names)
by Hla Min

Updated : June 2025

Zaw
- Zau Lai (EP69) — Duwa
Zau Lai
- Zaw Aung (EC84) — Singapore
- Zaw Aung (GBNF) — USA
- Zawgyi (U Thein Han) — Saya; Poet; Chief Librarian of Rangoon University Central Library
- Zaw Khin — Actor
- Zaw Kyu, Dr. (IM1 79er)
- Zaw Lin — RUBC Captain, Army
- Zaw Lin — Actor
- Zaw Lin, Dr. (David, USA)
- Zaw Lwin (Andrew, M87, USA)
- Zaw Maung
- Zaw Min — Soccer
- Zaw Min (M75) — United Engineering
Zaw Min Nawaday
- Zaw Min Nawaday (EP70) — Luyechun for 1st BE in 1965; Author of “RIT Days: 1964 – 1970”; Worked as EP in Burma and Electronics in USA; Spouse : Chicky
- Zaw Min Yu — Son of Director U Tin Yu
- Zaw Mon, Dr. (Glen, MEHS63) — Spouse: Merilyn
- Zaw Myint (Min Naing, GBNF) — Sports Officer
- Zaw Myint Thein (ZMT, Zaw Win) — Diplomat, Author
- Zaw Naing
- Zaw Nyunt — Htoo
- Zaw One — Actor, Vocalist
- Zaw Oo (M, UCC, Canada)
- Zaw Oo
- Zaw Paing
- Zaw Weik — Competed in Berlln Olympics as a member of the “British India Empire” team
- Zaw Win, Dr. — Maths Professor, Second in Burma
- Zaw Win (M67)
- Zaw Win (Cyril, EP68, GBNF)
- Zaw Win (EP70, Australia)
- Zaw Win (Zin Yaw, Mn71)
- Zaw Win (Zaw Myint Thein, ZMT) — Diplomat, Author
- Zaw Win Kyar — Ava House; Father: U Po Kyar
Names with Zaw in middle or end
- Aung Zaw (AZ) — Taught Computer Science and applications at UCC, CSO, Bangkok and Sydney.; Several UCC texts were authored by Saya U Soe Paing, U Aung Zaw and me;He has published two books. I was honored to edit his books, write Foreword and some chapters.
- Khin Maung Zaw (KMZ, UCC) — SPHS70; EC76; RIT webmaster; Microsoft
- Khin Maung Zaw — SPHS71; EP77; Organizer for OPA and RIT Class
- Khin Zaw — Maths Saya
- Khin Zaw, BBS — Chief Librarian of Rangoon University Central Library; Founder/Director of Myanmar Ah Than (BBS); Wrote articles and translations with the pen name “K”; Son: U Wint Khin Zaw (A79)
- Khin Zaw, Dr. (SPHS60) — Rector of the Institute of Education
- Khin Zaw, Dr. — Geology
- Khin Zaw (UCC) — Worked in Singapore and USA
- Myint Zaw (UCC) — Soul mate of Sayama Daw Nwe Nwe Win (Judy, UCC)
Zeya / Zeyar
- Zeya — May stand for Victory
- Zeya, Bo — Senior member of the Thirty Comrades, BCP
  Daughter : Daw Khin Marlar (spouse of Collegian Nay Win).
- Zeya, Yo Yo Gyi — Academy Award winning actor
- Zeya, Dr. — Chemistry Saya
- Zeya Kyaw Htin — Honorary title
- Zeyar — May stand for Sagaing
Zeyar Linn
- Zeyar Linn (M2002) — Past Captain and Gold of RUBC; Father: Sein Htoon (M63); Second Father-Son pair at RUBC to be Past Captain and Gold
- Zeyar Maung (U Ko Ko Lay) — Retired Vice Chancellor of Mandalay University
Names with Zeya in middle or end
- Aung Zeya — Burmese King
- Aung Zeya, Dr. — Saya; YTU
- I Zeyar Linn (M69, GBNF)
- Kyaw Zeya — ICST
Zin
- Zin Aung, Dr. — Physics; RASU and Assumption University; Father: U Pe Thaw; Spouse : Sayama Daw Sheila Saing (English)
- Zin Maung (GBNF) — CSO; Statistician; Writer
- Zin May Htoon, Dr. — Opthalmologist; Spouse: Dr. Sann Lin Ko
- Zin Min Oo (IT)
- Zin Thi Yu — Father: Director U Tin Yu
- Zin Waing — Actor
- Zin Yaw — Sea gull; Fictitious character in “Yaw Na Than Zin Yaw” (translation of “Jonathan Livingston Seagull”)
- Zin Yaw — Theme of a Burmese song
- Zin Yaw Gyi — Pen name of U Zaw Win (Min71)
Names with Zin in middle or end
- Swe Swe Kyaw Zin — Elder daughter of U Kyaw Zin; Entrepreneur
- Aye Aye Kyaw Zin — Younger daughter of U Kyaw Zin; First batch of B.Sc. (CS) from ICST.; Software engineering consultant/manager in Australia.
- Kyaw Zin (EP69)– Joint Treasurer of EE69er Fund
- Kyaw Zin Hla — He and his brother Saya U Kyaw Lwin Hla (RIT English) worked for UNDP
- Mya Zin — Pen name of U Win Pe to honor his spouse and daughter; U Win Pe also wrote as Po Yazar, Epsilon and Sagadaungzar
- Norman Thant Zin (A70) — y primary school mate at SPHS; His mother taught a different section at SPHS.
- Thant Zin (M82, GBNF) — Volunteer for SPZPs and HMEE.; Father : Saya U Sein Shan (RIT Maths).
- Thaw Zin — Author
June 2, 2025
Word Games
by Hla Min

Updated : May 2025

My elder brother’s wife is feeling sleepy
- My elder brother’s wife => MAYEE
- is feeling sleepy => yawn => THAN
- Combine them => MAYEE + THAN
- Transpose => MAYAN + THEE => MAYANTHEE မရမ်းသီး (Marion, delicious Burmese fruit)
“PIN LE DHA MYA” ပင်လယ်ဓားပြ
- PIN LE => is wide => KYAIR
- DHA MYA => plunders (takes by force) => TAIK
- Combine them => KYAIR + TAIK
- Transpose => KYAIK + TAIR (Love, …) ကြိုက်တယ်
Pho Thaike’s response
- Offer from the boss : “If I give you a raise of 5 kyats to your present salary of 20 kyats, will you move to Na Shan?”
- The response in Mixed Language
Twenty
Five
Toee တိုး

Pho Thaik ဖိုးသိုက်
No

No Go
Na Shan နရှံ
Town
May 24, 2025