shirvanshah
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Post by shirvanshah on Jun 8, 2017 13:38:57 GMT
Since there are like billion of people in the Sinosphere including 1.4 billion in China alone , how do different people avoid having the same username and lastname with another person? Also how do they avoid getting duplicate names if there surnames are in the list of the 100 most common Chinese surnames?
Let say if parents name there kid Wang Zheng, how do they know the name is unique and that there aren't million more Wang Zhengs? Or does the difference in "Zheng" characters in Mandarin will help avoid the name duplication?
Let say if parents name there kid: Li Hongming, how does they know there aren't other Li Hongming in China, Taiwan, Singapore? Or how would they know there aren't Korean version of their kids name like Lee Hong Myeong around?
I mean how do Chinese parents give unique name to their offspring without them being shared with others?
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Post by eldertree on Jun 9, 2017 11:12:06 GMT
Well it's the same as in the West
There's bound to be someone with the same name
There's so many possible combinations and character variants in Chinese.
It's not usual to come across someone with an identical family and given name though, but it can happen.
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shirvanshah
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Post by shirvanshah on Jun 10, 2017 10:37:33 GMT
Well it's the same as in the West There's bound to be someone with the same name There's so many possible combinations and character variants in Chinese. It's not usual to come across someone with an identical family and given name though, but it can happen. I see. Do you think it is possible there might someone with the same name as you? Btw, I found this link about the most 50 common Chinese names lol: www.chinawhisper.com/top-50-m...chinese-names/Also Renren site has a function called "Same first name same last name gathering": name.renren.com/ (I don't really know Mandarin lol. Got it from this site: foreignpolicy.com/2013/04/26/...-the-same-name) |
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ngohuy
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Post by ngohuy on Jun 10, 2017 14:48:50 GMT
Surname of china is very diverse.
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Post by redwine on Jun 11, 2017 6:31:47 GMT
My Vietnamese name is Nguyen Anh Tu, and there are a million Viets with the exact same name.
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Post by eldertree on Jun 11, 2017 10:05:43 GMT
Well it's the same as in the West There's bound to be someone with the same name There's so many possible combinations and character variants in Chinese. It's not usual to come across someone with an identical family and given name though, but it can happen. I see. Do you think it is possible there might someone with the same name as you? Btw, I found this link about the most 50 common Chinese names lol: www.chinawhisper.com/top-50-m...chinese-names/Also Renren site has a function called "Same first name same last name gathering": name.renren.com/ (I don't really know Mandarin lol. Got it from this site: foreignpolicy.com/2013/04/26/...-the-same-name)I googled my own Chinese name and there were a few people with the same name, but not many. So yeah it happens but the likelihood of actually meeting someone with the exact same name as you is rare I think. Some names are more common than others, especially if you have a single character given name and a common surname like Zhang, Li, Wang IMO. |
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