it's pretty rare afaict, i actually have no idea whether it's unisex or not. it's possible the other qiaochu uses different characters, i never checked
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Hello from Southeast Asia!
As someone currently studying Chinese names (as a hobby), and with a Chinese name that 3 other classmates in high school shared as well, hereβs a small contribution:
There are many Chinese characters that have the same English transliteration.
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Qiao can be ζ‘₯οΌε·§οΌηΏοΌδΎ¨οΌζ²
Chu can be εΊοΌε€οΌεοΌι€οΌθ§¦
And so on.
Generally there are βfeminineβ characters chosen for girlsβ names and more βmasculineβ characters for boysβ names.
An example would be ζ‘₯ (bridge) for a guy and ε·§ (graceful) for a girl.
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Choosing names is an art that some feng shui masters have perfected in order to balance oneβs elements in oneβs natal charts.
If one has too much fire, wood & earth in their charts at birth, then words containing elements of water & metal would be employed.
But I digress.
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aha hmm. the characters in my name are ηΏζ₯, does that help?
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Hello! I've consulted 2 people more learned in the Chinese language than me, but I see you've already read some stuff about your name.
ζ₯ is traditionally a character associated with a girl
but ηΏζ₯ seems a little unisex because of the first character
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learning some things about my name 
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Which your friend has already pointed out. Haha. But thanks for asking. I think I need to brush up on my Chinese seeing that I'm trying to figure out the best feng shui names for stuff.
Hope you're alright after getting mildly hit by a car. Take care.
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Whatever the etymology sad to inform you that ηΏζ₯ is not gendered nowadays which means it gets used more on men
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WHAT
QC was hit by a car?
Shows be for being off Twitter I suppose
And get better soon!
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Yeah. Hope you get better soon!
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i'm fine, the car was going very slowly. driver had a very shocked expression on her face. idk what the etiquette is in these situations, was i supposed to talk to her or something? i just walked away and got lunch
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Nice. Ok. How was lunch.
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lunch was at a new place and slightly disappointing but thanks for asking! and thanks for the reply rachel π