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For example, the People's Republic of China uses the term 主席 (zhǔxí) to mean "president", but there are other Chinese words usually translated as "president", such as 總統 (zǒngtǒng). Additionally, some English-language sources may misspell or otherwise alter Chinese romanizations as to create ambiguity: for example, writing "Liu" as ...
Those with a Western first name can write their name in English in various ways – some may add the Western first name in front and the Chinese given name last (the surname is therefore in the middle), or fully Westernised with both the Western and Chinese given names before the Chinese surname. [21] Examples include Carrie Lam, originally ...
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.
Surname stroke order; List of common Chinese surnames; Hundred Family Surnames; A. Ai (surname) ... Feng (surname meaning wind) Fèng (surname) Fu (surname) G. Gan ...
The Chinese expression "Three Zhang Four Li" (simplified Chinese: 张三李四; traditional Chinese: 張三李四; pinyin: Zhāng Sān Lǐ Sì) is used to mean "anyone" or "everyone", [4] but the most common surnames are currently Wang in mainland China [5] and Chen in Taiwan. [6]
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.
I believe the most intuitive way is to mention the names in Western order on the first line and then provide Chinese names and transliterations in native order using a table/template. For example, Mao Zedong should be noted in the intro as Zedong (Tse-tong) Mao , then the rest of the article is free to use native name order and most common name ...
from Chinese 洪 "Hong" meaning water or flood listed 184th among the Song-era Hundred Family Surnames ហ៊ុន: hun: Hun: money investment, share (of stocks). Thai or Chinese etymology. [4] Possibly related to 份 ("Hun" in Hokkien) meaning "share, portion." ហូ: hou: Ho/Hu: 胡 (Chinese "Hu") ឡាយ Lay 來/来 (Chinese "Lai ...