What will be Lin Dan names if he is a Korean/Malaysian Chinese/Japanese/HongKong/etc

[weeyet]

Just for fun

For those who cannot understand what is this all about, i should explain like this. The Chinese, Malaysian Chinese, Korean, Japanese all have names in the Chinese characters.

Chinese characters have different pronounciation in different regions. For example, the character "Lin" (as in Lin Dan) is pronounced as "Hayashi" in Japanese, "Lam" in Cantonese/Hong Kong, and of course "Lin" in Chinese language, etc

For Malaysian Chinese names, although they are always read in Mandarin, but in the identity card/birth cert, it is not written in pinyin mostly, but most of the time, wrriten in pronounciation in Cantonese or Hokkien or other dialect or mix of them.

HOwever, compare to others, Korean less use chinese character in their names.

Lin Dan
Malaysian Chinese - Lim Tan
Japanese - Hayashi xxx(dunno how 2 pronounce character 'dan' in japanese)
Hong Kong - Lam Tan
Korean - ??


Wong Choong Hann
Chinese - Huang Zhonghan
Hong Kong - Wong Chung Hon
Japanese - ???
Korean - ???


Zhao Jianhua
Malaysian Chinese - Chew Ken Wah
Hong Kong - Chiu Kin Wa
Japanese - xxx

[Nephrus]

actually when pronoucing Lin Dan in Cantonese its Lum Dan. Lam is usually the written surname.

[Neosakai]

Originally Posted by weeyet

Just for fun

For those who cannot understand what is this all about, i should explain like this. The Chinese, Malaysian Chinese, Korean, Japanese all have names in the Chinese characters.

Chinese characters have different pronounciation in different regions. For example, the character "Lin" (as in Lin Dan) is pronounced as "Hayashi" in Japanese, "Lam" in Cantonese/Hong Kong, and of course "Lin" in Chinese language, etc

For Malaysian Chinese names, although they are always read in Mandarin, but in the identity card/birth cert, it is not written in pinyin mostly, but most of the time, wrriten in pronounciation in Cantonese or Hokkien or other dialect or mix of them.

HOwever, compare to others, Korean less use chinese character in their names.

Lin Dan
Malaysian Chinese - Lim Tan
Japanese - Hayashi xxx(dunno how 2 pronounce character 'dan' in japanese)
Hong Kong - Lam Tan
Korean - ??


Wong Choong Hann
Chinese - Huang Zhonghan
Hong Kong - Wong Chung Hon
Japanese - ???
Korean - ???


Zhao Jianhua
Malaysian Chinese - Chew Ken Wah
Hong Kong - Chiu Kin Wa
Japanese - xxx

Do you have their names in Kanji? I might be able to help

[winstonchan]

Originally Posted by weeyet

Just for fun

Zhao Jianhua
Malaysian Chinese - Chew Ken Wah
Hong Kong - Chiu Kin Wa
Japanese - xxx

I think it should be Chiu Kim Wa in Hong Kong cantonese pronunciation

[Qidong]

Originally Posted by Neosakai

Do you have their names in Kanji? I might be able to help

Lin Dan - 林丹
Wong Choong Hann - 黄宗翰
Zhao Jianhua - 赵剑华

[yannie]

Originally Posted by weeyet

Just for fun

For those who cannot understand what is this all about, i should explain like this. The Chinese, Malaysian Chinese, Korean, Japanese all have names in the Chinese characters.

Chinese characters have different pronounciation in different regions. For example, the character "Lin" (as in Lin Dan) is pronounced as "Hayashi" in Japanese, "Lam" in Cantonese/Hong Kong, and of course "Lin" in Chinese language, etc

For Malaysian Chinese names, although they are always read in Mandarin, but in the identity card/birth cert, it is not written in pinyin mostly, but most of the time, wrriten in pronounciation in Cantonese or Hokkien or other dialect or mix of them.

HOwever, compare to others, Korean less use chinese character in their names.

Lin Dan
Malaysian Chinese - Lim Tan
Japanese - Hayashi xxx(dunno how 2 pronounce character 'dan' in japanese)
Hong Kong - Lam Tan
Korean - ??


Wong Choong Hann
Chinese - Huang Zhonghan
Hong Kong - Wong Chung Hon
Japanese - ???
Korean - ???


Zhao Jianhua
Malaysian Chinese - Chew Ken Wah
Hong Kong - Chiu Kin Wa
Japanese - xxx

oh oh, interesting what about cai yun and fu haifeng in malaysian chinese, cantonese, japanese, korean and so on ??

[weeyet]

Originally Posted by Qidong

Wong Choong Hann - 黄宗翰

should be 黄综翰.........

[weeyet]

Originally Posted by weeyet

Lin Dan
Japanese - Hayashi xxx(dunno how 2 pronounce character 'dan' in japanese)

learn a new word today, Lin Dan will become Hayashi Tan in Japan.

[weeyet]

Originally Posted by yannie

oh oh, interesting what about cai yun and fu haifeng in malaysian chinese, cantonese, japanese, korean and so on ??

Cai Yun 蔡赟
Malaysian Chinese - Chua Yin
Cantonese - Choy XXX

Fu Haifeng 付海峰
Malaysian Chinese - Foo Hai Fong
Japanese - XXX KaiXX

[madturtle]

Originally Posted by Neosakai

Do you have their names in Kanji? I might be able to help

May I Know what is Kanji?

[Neosakai]

Originally Posted by madturtle

May I Know what is Kanji?

Kanji is the chinese characters weeyet was talking about.

http://www.kanjisite.com/html/wak/wak4.html

[jug8man]

Originally Posted by madturtle

May I Know what is Kanji?

Chinese characters or ideograms used in Japanese writing. The characters may have different meanings from their Chinese counterparts. See Hiragana and Katakana.
www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/glossaries/unicode.html


(kahn-gee) is Japanese for "Chinese (kan) characters (ji)." These characters originated in China approximately 4000 years ago, and were imported into Japan, where they were adapted to the Japanese spoken language. Consequently, kanji are very close to the Chinese hanzi and share many identical characters, although they are pronounced differently (eg, "kan" instead of "han," and "ji" instead of "zi"). Kanji are sometimes (loosely) called ideograms as they generally represent ideas or objects, although they are frequently used only phonetically. The other Japanese characters sets - hiragana, katakana, and romaji - are exclusively phonetic. Some words consist of just one kanji
www.aproposinc.com/pages/asiantrm.htm




cheers

8man

[madturtle]

woah, thanks for that detailed explanation. sounds like a tuitorial.