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Naming laws in China (excluding Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan) are based mainly on technical capability rather than the appropriateness of words [citation needed] (as opposed to naming laws in Japan, which restrict the kanji which can be used based on appropriate taste, as well as readability by all people).
Chinese names are personal names used by individuals from Greater China and other parts of the Sinophone world. Sometimes the same set of Chinese characters could be chosen as a Chinese name, a Hong Kong name, a Japanese name, a Korean name, a Malaysian Chinese name, or a Vietnamese name, but they would be spelled differently due to their varying historical pronunciation of Chinese characters.
The Chinese abbreviated name, e.g. Ningwu Railway, should still be mentioned in the first sentence of the article as a secondary name of the expressway/railway, and should be made a redirect link to the article. This Chinese abbreviated name can be freely used in the article itself and in other articles. The rule above applies only to article ...
Among American-born and other overseas Chinese it is common practice to be referred to primarily by one's non-Chinese name, with the Chinese one relegated to alternate or middle name status. Recent immigrants, however, often use their Chinese name as their legal name and adopt a non-Chinese name for casual use only.
Unless it has its own article, when a name, term, or phrase that comes from Chinese is mentioned for the first time in an article, it is often helpful to include the original Chinese-language text. There are many distinct Chinese words and names with similar or identical romanisations, and translations of Chinese terms into English may be ...
Given name: Hiowan Yei in Manchu; Xuan Ye (玄燁 xuan2 ye4) in Chinese Era name: Elhe Taifin in Manchu; Kangxi (康熙 kang1 xi1) in Chinese Temple name: Sheng Zu (聖祖 sheng4 zu3) Posthumous name: Emperor Hetian-hongyuan-wenhuruizhe-hongjiankuan-yuxiaojing-chengxin-gongderen ...
The Great Qing Code comprises 436 articles divided into seven parts, further subdivided into chapters. The first part (Names and General Rules) is a General Part, similar to that of Germany's Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch, which contains the general legal rules, principles, and concepts applied to the rest of the Code.
The surname stroke order (Chinese: 姓氏笔划排序) is a system for the collation of Chinese surnames.It arose as an impartial method of categorization of the order in which names appear in official documentation or in ceremonial procedure without any line of hierarchy.