What's your Chinese name?

[TenTigers]

Why is a "Chinese Name" necessary?

- jo

it isn't.
Some teachers do, some don't.
My Hung Kuen Sifus did.
My SPM teacher doesn't. ;-)

[SPJ]

my nickname is little cricket

or xiao xi shuai

I used to "hop" around alot and practice mantis in Taipei city park.

I was very skinny despite of eating 2 bowls of rice every meal.

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the park is now renamed 228 memorial park.

even though later in high school, I learned to do it slow and with heavy steps in Ba Ji

as if a bull lying down in each step

I prefer bull, truck or tank

however, xiao xi shuai stuck with me.

[KC Elbows]

李明

Li Ming. It's just the name my first Mandarin teacher passed out, and, after my trips to China, too many people use that name to change it. It's like John Smith, except I don't look like an average Chinese guy. I think it must seem like all the transdimensional beings in Buckaroo Bonzai named John Smith, makes the Chinese authorities on the lookout for a malicious John Lithgow.

[Lee Chiang Po]

Being born here in the USA, I don't think I was given a Chinese name.

[wiz cool c]

i have one cause i live in china and all my shuai jiao coaches can't speak a word of english, so it is easier to have a chinese name. My chinese name is HU KE. This name was given to me by my ex girlfriend in beijing. Hu is her family name ke is like chocolate which is pronounced ke like chokelete. there is also a famous lady singer with this name.

[Eddie]

I really doubt that its a kung fu culture thing tho.
In china people struggle with english names. My real name is pronounced Edwin (spelled different tho), but I use Eddie (or Ed with friends). In China Im anything from Yidewan, Yidi, Aidi, or just plain lowai. When people ask me what my name is, even in chinese, I ALWAYS say its just Eddie. They usualy struggle for a few seconds to say the E sound correctly, but then they almost always get it right.

In china it seems to me that names arent really that important anymore. People here change their english names every month (I know a girl whos been everything from Shadow, to Sebrena, to Mindy, to whatever else - all in a few months), so whats really in a name?

[Hardwork108]

My Chinese name is my username. The meaning is posted underneath.

I thought your name was a Chinese soccer match result.

[Scott R. Brown]

Bigus D!ckus.......OH! I'm sorry.....that's my Roman name!!

[David Jamieson]

Bigus D!ckus.......OH! I'm sorry.....that's my Roman name!!

Really? I thought for sure it was Incontinentia Buttocks

[sanjuro_ronin]

Really? I thought for sure it was Incontinentia Buttocks

That's his wife.

[SPJ]

there are 2 ways at least

1. kung fu names given by the teacher or organization

to show generation status or bei fen

for example wu tan, the first generation of students would be wu character or wu zi bei. so your name would be wu + something. wu zhong, we hua, we ming, wu guo etc (zhong hua ming guo would be chinese republic etc)

the sencond generation would be tan zi bei again

tan zhong, tan hua, tan ming, tan guo

these are all secretive, only within the organization or disciples would know.

2. street names/nick names: they are given by peers or other people. not by your self.

I would prefer to be called green hornet but Nooooo

I am just a "little cricket" hops around the park and annoys other CMA practitioners at the park--

actually, crickets bring good luck to people.

so people were happy to see me in the morning etc etc

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[Scott R. Brown]

Really? I thought for sure it was Incontinentia Buttocks

That's his wife.

Yeah! Get your movie lines straight you sillius saurus!!!!

[Mr Punch]

Knew I shouldn't have read this at work... some oldies, but some goldies

My kung fu teacher was a scouser. Most of the Chinese Republic probably spoke more intelligible English than him! He called me Mat.

The people at my aikido school regularly used two nicknames:

'the Dragon' : either because I was serious and fierce, or because I had dragon breath

'the Rubber Man/Sensei': either I was flexible, or I was good at protection...

In Japan my dojo name on my zekken is ateji for my name: Mashyuu. I have two, one is using the kanji for Lake Mashyuu in Hokkaido. This is literally "Magic Friction". It is supposedly a cool name, chosen by my kendo sensei who is a sometime linguist and language professor, but I have had people say it isn't so great because 'friction' has the same nuances as it does in English (i.e. contention) and because Mashyuu Ko has no micro-organisms living in it: it is an alien, barren lake. I've never been.

The other one is much cooler, which my wife chose: 'Sincere/Truth(ful)' and 'Polished/Trained', with the ateji for my surname being 'Active/Yang/Sunlight' 'Ryuu'.

[Pork Chop]

The other one is much cooler, which my wife chose: 'Sincere/Truth(ful)' and 'Polished/Trained', with the ateji for my surname being 'Active/Yang/Sunlight' 'Ryuu'.

my wife calls me "ganko oyaji" 頑固おやじ

[Eddie]

my wife calls me "ganko oyaji" 頑固おやじ

Stubborn *******? hehe

you must tell us what おやじ means