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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).



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)


Posted By: rathpy
Date Posted: 20 January 2007 at 3:52am
Thank you, onebir.




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