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5 unusual facts about Chinese name


Lun Lun

Her original name, Hua Hua, was changed to Lun Lun by her sponsor, the Taiwanese rock star Su Huilun.

Margaret Chan

:This is a Chinese name; Fung is the maiden name and Chan is the married name.

Notas para una cartografía de Filipinas

Notas para una cartografía de Filipinas, subtitled Prelude, Toccata, and Fugues for piano and gangsa, one player, is a work by the contemporary classical composer Jeffrey Ching (Chinese name in Pinyin: Zhuang Zŭxin 莊祖欣, 庄祖欣).

Shen Yanfei

Her birth name, Shen Yanfei, follows Chinese convention so Shen is the family name and Yanfei the given name.

Yunfei

Yunfei (雲飛) is a Chinese name.


Lee Hsin-han

:The person who is the subject of this biography has a Chinese name; his family name is Lee.


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Battle of Lake Khasan

The conflict started on July 15, when the Japanese attaché in Moscow demanded the removal of Soviet border troops from the Bezymyannaya (сопка Безымянная, Chinese name: Shachaofeng) and Zaozyornaya (сопка Заозёрная, Chinese name: Changkufeng) Hills to the west of Lake Khasan in the south of Primorye, not far from Vladivostok, claiming this territory by the Soviet–Korea border.

Cove LRT Station

The station's Chinese name (海湾) was identical to the Chinese name for Bayfront MRT station, which is an interchange station for the Downtown Line and the Circle Line.

Dao Lang

Dolan people or Dao Lang (in Chinese), name of a people or region of what is now Xinjiang Province, China

Étiemble

Étiemble (René Ernest Joseph Eugène Étiemble, Chinese name:安田樸), born 26 January 1909, Mayenne, Mayenne, died 7 January 2002, Vigny) was an essayist, scholar, novelist, and promoter of Middle Eastern and Asian cultures.

Gamma Piscium

In Frank Herbert's Dune series, Gamma Waiping (The Chinese name for Pisces) is the home system of Imperial House Corrino.

Georg Weig

Georg Weig, SVD (Chinese name: Wei Changlu) (December 14, 1883—October 3, 1941) was a German prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.

Inspector Pink Dragon

The Chinese name of Tony Leung Ka Fai's character (馬友友) is also the Chinese name of famed celloist Yo-Yo Ma.

James Fei

James Cheng Ting Fei (Chinese name: ; pinyin: Fèi Zhèngtíng; b. Taipei, Taiwan, 1974) is a composer and performer working in the fields of contemporary classical music and electronic music.

Jardine Matheson

The name of Yee Wo Street in Hong Kong's East Point and Causeway Bay Districts comes from Jardine's Chinese name "Ewo" whilst other locations associated with the company include Jardine's Bazaar, Jardine's Crescent, Jardine's Bridge, Jardine's Lookout, Yee Wo Street, Matheson Street, Jardine House and the Noon-day Gun.

Jasmine Women

The Chinese name of the movie, Mo li hua kai, is based on a popular Chinese song Mo Li Hua, which means "jasmine flower blossom."

Klotski

Huarong Dao (alternatively named Huarong Path or Huarong Trail, Chinese name: 華容道) is the Chinese variation, based on a fictitious story in the historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms about the warlord Cao Cao retreating through Huarong Trail (in present-day Jianli County, Jingzhou, Hubei) after his defeat at the Battle of Red Cliffs in the winter of 208/209 CE during the late Eastern Han Dynasty.

Li Guohao

Brandon Lee (1965 – 1993), Chinese name Li Guohao, Chinese-American actor, son of Bruce Lee

Li Ming

Leon Lai (born 1966), Chinese name Li Ming, Hong Kong singer and actor

Li Wen

Coco Lee (born 1975), Chinese name Li Wen, Chinese singer, songwriter, and actress

Lin Baoyi

Bowie Lam (born 1965), Chinese name Lin Baoyi, Hong Kong actor

Linzhou

Lhünzhub County, or Linzhou County (林周县) from its Chinese name, of Lhasa, Tibet, PRC

Macleaya cordata

The Chinese name 博落回 (bóluòhúi) is derived from 簸邏迴 (bòluóhúi), the Xianbei name of the instrument 大角 (dà jiǎo, "big horn"), for the tonal similarity between the playable hollow stem and the instrument.

Meng Huo You

The earliest mention of "rock oil" (石油), the Chinese name for petroleum, is by a book "Grand Peace Records" from the Northern Song Dynasty, and officially designated the current name by Song Dynasty scientist Shen Kuo using the description found in his famous book Dream Pool Essays.

Open University of China

Its old name was China Central Radio and TV University (this is still the Chinese name), which reflects its heritage of providing a system of higher education through radio and television.

Persicaria amplexicaulis

Methyl caffeate, ethyl caffeate and other phenolic compounds can be found in Polygonum amplexicaule var. sinense (Chinese name: Xuesanqi), a widely distributed medicinal plant in China.

Tai Ping Shan

Victoria Peak, on Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong which is often known by its Chinese name Tai Ping Shan

Wang Fei

Faye Wong, with Chinese name Wang Fei, a Beijing-born pop singer

Wu Han

Haing S. Ngor, the 20th century actor and doctor whose most famous work was The Killing Fields, had the same Chinese name

中山

Sun Yat-sen (Chinese name: 孫中山 Sūn Zhōngshān) (1866–1925), a Chinese revolutionary and political leader