Chinese name
Chinese names are names used by individuals from Greater China and other parts of the Sinophone world. Sometimes the same set of Chinese characters could be chosen as a Chinese name, a Hong Kong name, a Japanese name, a Korean name, a Han Taiwanese name, a Malaysian Chinese name, or a Vietnamese name, but they would be spelled differently due to their varying historical pronunciation of Chinese characters. Modern Chinese names generally have a one-character family name (姓氏; xìngshì) followed by an individual name (名; míng), which may be either one or two characters in length. In recent decades, two-character individual names are much more commonly chosen; studies during the 2000s and 2010s estimated that over three-quarters of China's population at the time had two-character individual names, with the remainder almost exclusively having one character. Prior to the 21st century, most educated Chinese men also used a courtesy name ("style name"; 字; zì) by which they were known among those...
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