Alexander Kevin Yen

Heraldry of the World
Personal arms

ALEXANDER KEVIN YEN

Registration no.: 023/2021

Country of origin : China (PRC)
Place of origin : Hong Kong
Granted : No
Granted/officially recorded by : -

Official English blazon

Shield: Or, a fox courant Gules, in base two bars wavy Azure, on a chief embattled Azure, three crowns Or.
Crest: A demi-pelican vulning herself Proper issuant from a circlet of lilies Argent seeded Or and leaved Vert.
Mantling: Azure doubled Or.
Motto: "Contra Mundum".

Other language blazon

Origin/meaning

The arms allude to important junctures in the armiger's life and capture some of the guiding lights by which they live. The three crowns in chief and the wreath of lilies are allusions to the educational institutions with which the armiger is connected. The fox is an allusion to Archilocus, being the creature that knows 'many little things'; this, combined with the embattlement of the chief, and the motto 'Contra Mundum', represent the armiger's beliefs in respect of a life well-led: to aspire to generalism, and to stand ready to defend the right against all comers. The water alludes to the armiger's immigrant past, and the pelican vulning herself the posture of self-sacrifice which the armiger believes ought ever to be kept in view, being called 'to serve and to lead'.