common Chinese names
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Printed Date: 16 January 2009 at 3:29am
Topic: common Chinese names
Posted By: rathpy
Subject: common Chinese names
Date Posted: 19 January 2007 at 3:57pm
Would anybody please be able to give characters for the following
(supposedly-) common Chinese names? (either traditional or simplified).
... I try practice reading and writing by transcribing the text into
Chinese characters, but person names are difficult for me to assign
appropriate characters to.
Surnames (I think I've got all these)
Huáng 黃
Wáng 王
Zhāng 張
Lǐ 李
Zhào 趙
Máo 毛
Táng 唐
Mǎ 馬
Zhōu 周
Jiāng 姜
Jiǎng 蔣
Gāo 高
Lín 林
Sūn 孫
Sòng 宋
Fāng 方
Liú 劉
Chén 陳
Yáng 楊
Sīmǎ 司馬
ōuyáng 歐陽
Hú 胡
Wú 吳
Liáng 梁
Given Names (male)
Dálǐ
Mínglǐ
Dànián
Shìmín
Huá
Déxián
Yǒngpíng
Zìqiáng
Jié
Zhīyuǎn
Guóquán
Shàowén
Shìyīng
Tíngfēng
Chén
Zhènhàn
Given Names (female)
Juān
Lìróng
Wǎnrú
Měilíng
Xiùfèng
Qiǎoyún
Huìwén
Défēn
Lù
Bǎolán 寶藍
Yùzhēn
Měilì
Mǐnzhēn
Huìrán
Bīngyíng
Qīng
Zǐyàn
(This list is from the Orientation Module - Appendix 6).
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Replies:
Posted By: onebir
Date Posted: 20 January 2007 at 2:04am
Chinese given names usually include characters with positive qualities - bearing in mind gender stereotypes ;-) eg: Yǒngpíng = 永平 (eternal harmony) Měilì = 美丽 (beautiful) But most of them are less obvious, unfortunately...
If you post the names over on http://www.chinese-forums.com/ - http://www.chinese-forums.com/ someone there will probably be able to provide the characters easily. I think there are others there working on FSI hanzi transcripts too, so you may be able to cross check your work. (It might be worth setting up a wikibook to make cooperation easier - http://en.wikibooks.org/ - http://en.wikibooks.org/ or using http://www.chineseblast.com - http://www.chineseblast.com)
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Posted By: rathpy
Date Posted: 20 January 2007 at 3:52am
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