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My name is now Zhou Ming (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 2 months ago by Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml to c/chapotraphouse@lemmygrad.ml

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Yeah I am going to a trip to Taiwan in X units of time for Y purpose (I want to avoid being doxxed) and the event organizers told me I need a Chinese name (idk for what exactly tbh).

So there you go. I'm pretty sure the chinese name means something like "complete enlightenment" (or at least that is a possible interpretation, which I'm going with cause its cool af).

I kinda wanted to do something with "xiao" because I find it cute and almost girly (although I think Chinese people wouldn't find it as such), but it's fine I guess.

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[–] mao_dun@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 months ago

Just didn't know if you were giving them the hanzi or romanized :P

Yeah Taiwan doesn't use pinyin all that much afaik, but for names I think they always use a system similar to (if not just is) wade-giles for romanization

(For example 蔡英文(hanzi) Tsai Ing-Wen (taiwan romanization) Cai Yingwen (pinyin);; 马英九 (hanzi) Ma Ying-jeou (tw) Ma Yingjiu (pinyin))