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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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[–] CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 months ago (6 children)

ROC is salty about simplified Chinese and tries to do some eugenics shit with their language. I saw a video of a two women band on The Voice Taiwan, one of them sang pop and the other growled (as in metal), and she got disqualified for "disrespecting the Chinese language" or something. For growling. In real China she would probably be a national star by now lol.

Her bandmate was allowed to continue without her btw.

[–] mao_dun@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I was gonna say, would you (op/sodium_nitride) romanize the "Chou" instead of "Zhou" because you're going to Taiwan?

[–] Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I had no idea this was even a thing. I thought "Zhou" was already romanised. If the Taiwanese want me to make it "Chou", I could do that certainly.

[–] 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))

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