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    what's your chinese name?

    Many of us gwai lo (for this translation i mean non chinese and please don't take it as an insult yada yada yada as much as you may want to express that it is a bad thing to say to a whitey or westerner an so on) who have been in martial arts of china for a while usually at some point have a chinese name bestowed upon us by someone we've met along the way, or someone who has taught us, or given us a lesson or whatever.

    Chinese folks get to picj their western name when they come over or they recieve a western name when born here. For the most part, the tables aren't fully turned on that point, but who cares, point is....

    what's your chinese name?

    Mines right there in my chops avatar.

    What's yours and why did you get tagged with it?
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    I dont actually have a chinese name although I have come to the stage where I want one. Usually when I was travelling through china I was called 'yingguo' or whatever the chinese word is for english.

    The problem with the whole english/chinese name is you cant really have your english name translated.....like all the suckers who get calligraphy written for them. You can translate the syllabols from english to chinese but not the essence.....if you get me. It doesnt work as chinese names are usually poetic, whereas ours are just names. I think that the better way to translate your name would be to find what your english name means, and then translate the concept into chinese......otherwise when you say your 'so called' 'chinese name' it doesnt actually make that much sense.

    craig

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    Donno if this counts but my name in my native language is like gift from god or given from the divine . So i guess that would be it translated into chinese.

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    cheers you just emphasized my point

    craig

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    Du Tit Lung.

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    I have never received a chinese name, but received them in other styles I train(ed)

    Judo: bull, python

    thai boxing: Thunder kick

    capoeira: Besta (beast)
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    Quote Originally Posted by monkeyfoot
    I dont actually have a chinese name although I have come to the stage where I want one. Usually when I was travelling through china I was called 'yingguo' or whatever the chinese word is for english.

    The problem with the whole english/chinese name is you cant really have your english name translated.....like all the suckers who get calligraphy written for them. You can translate the syllabols from english to chinese but not the essence.....if you get me. It doesnt work as chinese names are usually poetic, whereas ours are just names. I think that the better way to translate your name would be to find what your english name means, and then translate the concept into chinese......otherwise when you say your 'so called' 'chinese name' it doesnt actually make that much sense.

    craig

    What DJ is referring to is a nick name. No different than the tag name that pro fighters use. Many arts have unwritten traditions of nicknaming; capoeira is one of these. You will receive a nick from someone other than you, typically someone higher rank than you. It not just having your name translated.
    i'm nobody...i'm nobody. i'm a tramp, a bum, a hobo... a boxcar and a jug of wine... but i'm a straight razor if you get to close to me.

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    Mine's Liu Mang

    OK, just kidding. Liu Mang is the literal translation of 'rogue'

    My Shaolin name is Xinglong. That's 32nd gen for Xing. Long as in Dragon. The monks said I should be like a dragon and bring Shaolin to America. My birth name is Chen Xing Hua. Chen as in Chen Taiji - the character can be broken down into 'ear to the east'. Xing Hua means like 'prosperous splendor' or something like that.

    If anyone wants a Chinese name, I'd be happy to make one up for you.
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    Funny, my Sifu just offered to give me one a few weeks ago, what he came up with was....Horses, Stream, Up, he gave me the characters, but I dont remember how to say it, on the real ....I was truly blessed to have such a good Sifu!.

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    Golden rat or metal rat Jing Shu is the nickname.

    It is my birth sign or horoscope.


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    Pu Ti Shen

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    Talking

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    when i was in china people called sun wu kiong cause im hairy and remind them of a monkey. also got happy guy (cause of my excessive drinking i guess) as my name in china might as well let them assign it.
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