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    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...
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  • state', 'Middle kingdom' in Standard Chinese, a form based on the Beijing dialect of Mandarin. The English name "China" was borrowed from Portuguese during...
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  • language, both in majority-Sinophone countries and among the Chinese diaspora. Chinese given names are almost always made up of one or - usually - two characters...
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  • Chinese surnames are used by Han Chinese and Sinicized ethnic groups in Greater China, Korea, Vietnam and among overseas Chinese communities around the...
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  • Chinese era names, also known as reign mottos, were titles used by various Chinese dynasties and regimes in Imperial China for the purpose of year identification...
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  • Yong (Chinese: 勇) is a common Chinese name. From Chinese 勇 (yǒng) means "brave" or 永 (yǒng) meaning "perpetual, eternal". Murong Yong was the last emperor...
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  • Chinese Indonesians have adopted names that better match the local language. During the Dutch colonial era, the Dutch administration recorded Chinese...
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    name (Chinese: 字; pinyin: zì; lit. 'character'), also known as a style name, is a name bestowed upon one at adulthood in addition to one's given name...
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  • Americans (per name) was just over 150,000. The Chinese expression "Three Zhang Four Li" (simplified Chinese: 张三李四; traditional Chinese: 張三李四; pinyin:...
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    also Jun is commonly Chinese given name written as 俊 in Southeast Asia such as Malaysia and Singapore and less commonly used in China and Taiwan. Currently...
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  • given name - Chinese given name - surname (e.g., Denise Li Leen Foo). In general practice, only one of the given names (the Western or Chinese name) is...
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    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. Li is one of the...
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  • A naming taboo is a cultural taboo against speaking or writing the given names of exalted persons, notably in China and within the Chinese cultural sphere...
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  • of his name due to an unsupported character. China portal Chinese name Chinese surname Chinese input methods for computers Naming law Naming law in Sweden...
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  • posthumous names. Some early Japanese monarchs also had Japanese-style posthumous names (和風諡号). Shihao (traditional Chinese: 諡號; simplified Chinese: 谥号; pinyin:...
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    An art name (pseudonym or pen name), also known by its native names hào (in Mandarin Chinese), gō (in Japanese), ho (in Korean), and tên hiệu (in Vietnamese)...
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  • Place names in China primarily refers to Han Chinese names, but also to those used by China's minorities. In his study of place-names in China, J. E. Spencer...
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  • include: simplified Chinese: 爱玲; traditional Chinese: 愛玲: Irene Ang (♀; 洪愛玲) beauty pageant contestant from Singapore at the Miss Chinese International Pageant...
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  • of the name. Other Chinese Indonesians, however, maintain their Chinese name as well as their family names. As is customary with Chinese names, the family...
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  • Chinese star names (Chinese: 星名, xīng míng) are named according to ancient Chinese astronomy and astrology. The sky is divided into star mansions (星宿,...
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  • Japanese era name Korean era name Vietnamese era name Posthumous name "ChinaKnowledge.de — An Encyclopaedia on Chinese History, Literature and Art"....
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    addressed. Chinese name Endonym and exonym - native name and non-native names Human names Legal name List of adjectival forms of place names Name calling...
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    (Chinese: 百家姓), commonly known as Bai Jia Xing, also translated as Hundreds of Chinese Surnames, is a classic Chinese text composed of common Chinese surnames...
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  • In Chinese-speaking societies around the world, an honorific title is attached after the family name of an individual when addressing that person. Aside...
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  • adequate knowledge of Chinese would not understand their name when it is spoken in Chinese languages. Simply porting the kanji into Chinese and reading them...
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  • Traditional names transliterated with Chinese characters with Latin characters underneath, or a Han Chinese name with Latin characters underneath. https://www...
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    Chinese term for Seoul: Chinese: 首爾; Chinese: 首尔; pinyin: Shǒu'ěr. The name was chosen by a select committee out of two names, the other being 首午爾; Shǒuwu'ěr...
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  • a domain name system for Chinese characters. Internationalized domain names Punycode Official web site Information on Registering a Chinese Domain Website...
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    The Chinese zodiac is a traditional classification scheme based on the Chinese calendar that assigns an animal and its reputed attributes to each year...
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  • A Chinese kin, lineage or sometimes rendered as clan, is a patrilineal and patrilocal group of related Chinese people with a common surname sharing a common...
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