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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. Chinese given name - Wikipedia

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    Description. 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 ...

  4. 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 ).

  5. 110 Chinese boy names for babies, from popular to rare - AOL

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    Chinese baby boy names offer a lot of options for parents, from popular to rare. Check out this list for unique, cool and special ideas for Chinese boy names. 110 Chinese boy names for babies ...

  6. Pinyin - Wikipedia

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    Hanyu Pinyin, or simply pinyin, is the most common romanization system for Standard Chinese. In official documents, it is referred to as the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet. Hanyu ( 汉语; 漢語) literally means ' Han language'—that is, the Chinese language—while pinyin literally means 'spelled sounds'. Pinyin is the official system used in ...

  7. Transcription into Chinese characters - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. 110 Chinese girl baby names to inspire you - AOL

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    When choosing a Chinese baby girl name, take into consideration family connections, any special significance the name has to you, and of course the meaning behind the name. Here are 110 from which ...

  9. Romanization of Chinese - Wikipedia

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    Romanization of Chinese ( Chinese: 中文拉丁化; pinyin: zhōngwén lādīnghuà) is the use of the Latin alphabet to transliterate Chinese. Chinese uses a logographic script and its characters do not represent phonemes directly. There have been many systems using Roman characters to represent Chinese throughout history.