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Lin ( [lǐn]; Chinese: 林; pinyin: Lín) is the Mandarin romanization of the Chinese surname written 林, which has many variations depending on the language and is also used in Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Myanmar, Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia .
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 Wikipedia ( traditional Chinese : 中 文 維 基 百 科; simplified Chinese : 中 文 维 基 百 科; pinyin : Zhōngwén Wéijī Bǎikē) is the written vernacular Chinese (a form of Mandarin Chinese) edition of Wikipedia. It is run by the Wikimedia Foundation. Started on 11 May 2001, [1] the Chinese Wikipedia currently has ...
Lee/หลี่ (Thai) Ly/Lý (Vietnamese) Li or Lee ( [lì]; Chinese: 李; pinyin: Lǐ) is a common Chinese surname, it is the 4th name listed in the famous Hundred Family Surnames.[ 1] Li is one of the most common surnames in Asia, shared by 92.76 million people in China, [ 2] and more than 100 million in Asia. [ 3]
v. t. e. Transcription into Chinese characters is the use of traditional or simplified Chinese characters to phonetically transcribe the sound of terms and names of foreign words to the Chinese language. Transcription is distinct from translation into Chinese whereby the meaning of a foreign word is communicated in Chinese.
Long before the Qin and Han Dynasty, in a village populated by non-Han people located somewhere in the southern area, their chief by the name of Wu had two wives by custom and a daughter by each of them. Ye Xian is Wu's daughter of one wife, and she is extremely beautiful, kind and gentle, and gifted in many skills such as pottery and poetry.
Yuán ( traditional Chinese: 緣; simplified Chinese: 缘; pinyin: yuán; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iân) or Yuanfen ( traditional Chinese: 緣分; simplified Chinese: 缘分; pinyin: yuánfèn; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: iân-hūn ), "fateful coincidence," is a concept in Chinese society describing good and bad chances and potential relationships. [ 1]
Chinese surnames have a history of over 3,000 years. Chinese mythology, however, reaches back further to the legendary figure Fuxi (with the surname Feng), who was said to have established the system of Chinese surnames to distinguish different families and prevent marriage of people with the same family names. [8]