Comment on Transliterated country names into Chinese Language use pre-existing characters that already has its own meaning, therefore native Chinese speakers have a subconcious impression based on country names.

fireweed@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Wispy2891@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I Remember a decade ago i read a post on blogpost on exactly this

  I wasted thirty minutes to search but I didn’t find it, but it was something like Michael Jackson was shocked to learn during his First tour in mainland china that the locals gave him the Hanzi 迈克尔·杰克逊 where the last character means “inferior” or something like that, instead in Taiwan the locals chose 麦可·杰克森 which has a better meaning.

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  • LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    When I studied Chinese our teachers basically took the first two letters of every student’s first & last names and associated it with pinyin & corresponding Chinese characters. So my Chinese name became Horse Angel.

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• MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Glorious Leader Tiny Sweat Hands

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