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    Agree with the others. Go with an English and Chinese name. I propose Long Wang.


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    Only if they are going to learn to read, write & speak Chinese to some level, otherwise they just look daft if they have a name they can't write and wouldn't recognise if someone called them by name.


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    Wat Wen Wong

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    Quote Originally Posted by arrowsmith:
    That's what I was thinking. So you can't really give them a proper Chinese style name e.g Li Ka Shing, Chow Yun Fat unless you make something up.
    on the contrary, chinese names can be also two sylable, (more common in china though) or rare cases, tradional surnames can two syllable example 歐陽/au-yeung or 司徒 sze-to

    others strange/unusual naming convention, adopting western style double barrel surnames ( combining both married and maiden surnames), which strangely seems to be popular with female hk politicians, ie, rita fan-shu 范徐麗泰, anson chan-fang 陳方安生

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    Western Husband Chinese Wife: English name is XXXX + Surname of Husband, What about the Chinese name then, would the surname be of the Mrs????

    The kid will end up with Two surnames????


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    i would use the mothers maiden name for the kid.


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    My recruiter does not look like mixed, but he has a Chinese name on his business card.

    is this a trend?

    Last edited by forgetmenot; 14-05-2013 at 10:47 PM.

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    plenty of people in asia has a chinese name.

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    The locals have a derogatory term for mixed blood. Phonetically something like "Tsap Chung".


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    Quote Originally Posted by wtbhotia:
    Western Husband Chinese Wife: English name is XXXX + Surname of Husband, What about the Chinese name then, would the surname be of the Mrs????

    The kid will end up with Two surnames????
    That's what I was trying to get at originally...

    Example: you called your kid Ryan Davidson

    As imparanoic says, you can write that in Chinese: (懷欣/Wai Yan) (大威臣 /dai wai san), but that's not really anything like a traditional Chinese name.

    It doesn't sound like anybody has tried to do that anyway.

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