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  2. Chinese name - Wikipedia

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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 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.

  3. Ng (name) - Wikipedia

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    Ng (name) Ng (pronounced [ ŋ̍]; English approximation often / ɪŋ / ing or / ɛŋ / eng) is a Cantonese transliteration of the Chinese surnames 吳 / 吴 ( Mandarin Wú) and 伍 (Mandarin Wǔ ). Alternately, it is a common Hokkien transcription of the name 黃 / 黄 ( Pe̍h-ōe-jī: N̂ɡ, Mandarin Huáng ).

  4. Xu (surname 徐) - Wikipedia

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    Xu (surname 徐) Xu ( Chinese: 徐; pinyin: Xú; Wade–Giles: Hsü2; Jyutping: Ceoi4) is a Chinese-language surname. In the Wade-Giles system of romanization, it is spelled as " Hsu ", which is commonly used in Taiwan or overseas Chinese communities. It is different from Xu (surname 許), represented by a different character.

  5. Mandarin Chinese - Wikipedia

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    wǒ I 给 gěi give 你 nǐ you 一本 yìběn a 书 shū book [我給你一本書] 我 给 你 一本 书 wǒ gěi nǐ yìběn shū I give you a book In southern dialects, as well as many southwestern and Lower Yangtze dialects, the objects occur in the reverse order. Most varieties of Chinese use post-verbal particles to indicate aspect, but the particles used vary. Most Mandarin dialects ...

  6. Zhang (surname) - Wikipedia

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    Zhang ( [ʈʂáŋ] ⓘ; traditional Chinese: 張; simplified Chinese: 张) is the third most common surname in China and Taiwan (commonly spelled as Chang in Taiwan), and it is one of the most common surnames in the world. [2] [3] It is spoken in the first tone Zhāng. It is a surname that exists in many languages and cultures, corresponding ...

  7. Chinese titles - Wikipedia

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    Chinese people often address professionals in formal situations by their occupational titles. These titles can either follow the surname (or full name) of the person in reference, or it can stand alone either as a form of address or if the person being referred to is unambiguous without the added surname. Academia

  8. Chinese given name - Wikipedia

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    Chinese given names are almost always made up of one or - usually - two characters and are written after the surname. Therefore, Wei ( 伟) of the Zhang ( 张) family is called "Zhang Wei" and not "Wei Zhang". In contrast to the relative paucity of Chinese surnames, given names can theoretically include any of the Chinese language's 100,000 ...

  9. Chinese surname - Wikipedia

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    The remaining eight of the top ten most common Chinese surnames are Zhang, Liu, Chen, Yang, Huang, Zhao, Wu and Zhou. [4] Two distinct types of Chinese surnames existed in ancient China, namely xing ( Chinese: 姓; pinyin: xìng) ancestral clan names and shi ( Chinese: 氏; pinyin: shì) branch lineage names.