Granted, your name may have more results or definitions or whatever if it's english, but here's what I found.
Top of results is my wiki entry. (wow) As I clicked on it I'm amused(but not surprised) to find my name is associated with females, birds, seascoffing, a chinese idiom and genetics. In that order, also something about millions and millions of years and filling up the sea.
okay maybe a little bit surprised.
As a trophy to adorn on my oversized ego, I paste the wiki entry in it's entirety here.
Jingwei
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Jingwei is the name of a character in Chinese mythology. Originally the daughter of the emperor Yandi, she perished at a young age in the East Sea. After her death she chose to assume the shape of a bird in order to exact revenge upon the sea by bringing stones and small twigs from the mountains nearby over the sea in an effort to fill it up. Jingwei even has a short dialogue with the sea where the sea scoffs her, claiming that she wouldn't be able to fill it up even in a million years, whereupon she claims that she will then proceed to take ten million years, even one hundred million years, whatever it takes to fill up the sea so that others would not have to perish as she did.
From this myth comes the Chinese expression "Jingwei filling the sea" meaning a symbol of dogged determination and perseverance in the face of seemingly impossible odds.
Professor Manyuan Long from the University of Chicago named a new Drosophilia gene after Jingwei because it was - like the princess - 'reincarnated' with a new function and a new appearance (structure). Other related genes were named following the legend.
Yes narcissistic blah blah. Tell me something I DON'T know.
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