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    Quote Originally Posted by GeneChing
    You can translate names a variety of ways. Typically, the Chinese like to make up some absurd phonetic. The classic example is Mark, which always becomes Ma Ke.

    Interesting. I guess I need to at least make a mental apology to someone who did that very thing for me.

    They took Matthew Melton and came up w/ something like Ma The Mei Ton which then translated to Golden Lion something or the other.

    I was pretty sceptical but was encouraged to get a chop made so I did. I'll have to dig it up and scan it and get one of you guys to translate.
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    Well it may go either way.

    Either just sounds with no meanings or similar sounds with magical meanings.

    My classsmate's name is Louise. So I named it Lu Yi meanining like Jade and everything goes your way or whatever you wish for will happen.


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    Okay, my turn!

    A friend who claimed to speak a fair amount of cantonese and some mandarin told me my name would translate to Cha Ga Lai. He said together it meant something like "Strong Style of Luck". Maybe he was a liar. I dunno... anyone?
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    I've had several over the years, in one school, they called me "Gwai-Sao"-ghost hands-'cause I was quite fast in my youth, my Sifu whenhe bai-si'd me gave me the name Hung Wai-Keurng-Hung from Hung-Ga, Hung Mo-Jue, etc, as he thought it improper for me to take his name and dishonor my Father-for a Chinese guy, he was quite western in thought. Wai-Keurng-they mean, courageous,honorable,(I think) , but he mostly called me affectionately, "Fan Tong"-which is an empty rice pot-useless.
    My mother-in-Law calls me "Ah-Lik-ah" and Ah-Sahm, my "Auntie" calls me "Saw-Jai" my OL calls me Diu-ma I don't think she's saying cat stance, though.

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    being a lineage holder in the ba bu tang lang system. I was given the name "Shyun Di Long" which I'm sure everyones figured out translates to EARTHDRAGON as you can tell from my screen name.

    Although I have been called much worse things . LOL

    someone said if water dragon and myself fought, would that mean we would then both be a mud dragon. Still laughing at that one.
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    Quote Originally Posted by TenTigers
    my OL calls me Diu-ma I don't think she's saying cat stance, though.
    uh... congratulations, hehehe

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    Since Chinese is consonant+vowel phonetically.

    There are many words sharing the same sound. Tong Yin Zi or Tong Shen Zi.

    There are also many words sounding differently but meaning the same. Tong Yi Zi.

    That makes them fun.

    For example, beautiful. we can say Mei, Jia, Jung, Qiao on and on.

    Lu may mean road, entry, like --- with different intonation and characters.

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    I want a name!

    I want a chinese name Gene!!! Name me!!!!

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    r: meiyou jiedao xinrenzhuang would be the literal way to translate 'lacks street credentials' but that's not quite right. I don't think the literal translation will make any sense in Mandarin. Besides, it's too big a mouthful.

    sc: Bow Sim Mark is a romanization from the Cantonese. Ma Ke is a standard Mandarin romanization - you can't say Mark in Mandarin. Nothing ends in a 'k'. I'm told Master Mark's name in Mandarin would be Mai Bao Chan. Mai (Mark) means wheat, apparently, and it's a very uncommon name.

    -d-: Disciple translates literally into Tudi, or in your case -tudi-. I'm a bit preoccupied now closing up things for the year but I'll try and think of something more appropo for you later.
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    I suppose my aikido nick-name could be either, "Too strong!" or "RELAX!!!" If you want to call me "Too strong!", you have to adopt a disappointed look and shake your head when you say it. "RELAX!!!" is properly accompanied with a punch to the solar plexus. Only Sensei uses these names for me.
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    I spent some time in Taiwan, teaching English a few years ago and was given a Chinese name by the people who ran the school I worked at.

    "Scott Dellinger" doesn't transliterate very well ("Scott" can even come out as profanity, if you transliterate it a certain way), so they gave me "Dai" as a surname and "Hau Tien" or (Hao tian) as my given name.

    From what I was told, it means "Big Sky" or "Big as the Sky". They found this extremely amusing, of course, but I was assured it was a perfectly "cromulent" name . I'm not THAT tall (6'1"), but when I was there I was about 246lbs, so I was also quite thick (I'm a lean, mean 180 now, though ).

    Cheers!

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    What's your Chinese name?

    Most, if not all of you (non-Chinese that is) who practice kungfu and especially those of you who come from predominantly Chinese lineages have had a Chinese name bestowed upon you.

    What's yours? How does it relate to your kungfu and why were you given it?
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    So Dam Hung is my name. my nick name is Hung So Lo !
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    when he's around quick to ground and pound a clown
    Bruh we thought you knew better
    when it comes to head huntin, ain't no one can do it better

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