Hi Stephen, all caps should be included, thanks for your pointint out.
for your 85% is one syllable, I guess that normally has two characters for family name, then they will have two syllables? thanks, -Hui 2013/7/11 Stephen Sprunk <[email protected]> > On 11-Jul-13 08:58, Simon Perreault wrote: > > I have a question: I think I've seen Chinese names written in both > > orders. That is, sometimes "Hui Deng" will be written "Deng Hui". Am > > I right? Does this happen often? What is the most common order? Is > > there a way to guess what order a name is written in? Sometimes it's > > not easy for non-Sinophones to know which part is the given name and > > which part is the family name. > > It is more common for the given name to come first when written in Pinyin, > following the rule for other languages written in Latin characters, but > exceptions are frequent enough that one can't rely on it. A useful and > growing convention is to write the family name in all caps. Using the > above example, if "Deng" were the family name, you might see: > > Hui DENG > or > DENG Hui > > whereas if "Hui" were the family name, you might see: > > Deng HUI > or > HUI Deng > > Also, most family names have a single syllable; all of the top 100 are, > which accounts for 85% of the population of China. So, if exactly one of > the names has multiple syllables, it is reasonably safe to assume that is > the given name, absent a more definitive clue. > > S > > -- > Stephen Sprunk "God does not play dice." --Albert Einstein > CCIE #3723 "God is an inveterate gambler, and He throws the > K5SSS dice at every possible opportunity." --Stephen Hawking >
