Chosen as the result of a national competition to select a name for the baby mammal, more than 22 million postcards were received with over 60 percent of those voting for Linping - a name that means “ice forest” in Chinese.
The name was one of four selected from an initial list of more than 300 names originally submitted. The other three names and their meanings were:
Kwan Thai – a Thai expression meaning, “darling of the Thai people".
Tai Jin – meaning "Thai gold" but can also refer to the Thai-Chinese relationship as “jin” is the Thai way of saying China.
Ying Ying – Chinese for "prosperity", while in Thai “ying” means girl.
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This article is written by John Le Ferve
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