4 ms·
It doesn’t matter if your friend uses an English name at work. It doesn’t matter if the ethnic group writes it last first or first last. If you’re filling in
by throwaway2990 3y ago
It doesn’t matter if your friend uses an English name at work.
It doesn’t matter if the ethnic group writes it last first or first last.
If you’re filling in Chinese documentation and writing it in Chinese it will be a single field in Chinese.
If you’re writing it in English it will be written in 2 fields as first name and last name as the English version of the Chinese name.
The spoken English name of “alice” or “David” are not used on official documentation.
Name cards will sometimes have English names and sometimes they will put the English name with Chinese last name. But also write the Chinese name in Chinese.
I can’t believe how much people are over thinking this stuff.
- kelnos 3y agoSounds like you're overthinking. One field for "full name" and another for "how you want to be addressed" is way simpler than the "rules" you list above. And also consider that you've only listed rule for two cases (and your rules are wrong, or at best incomplete), and have left out the hundreds of other rules for other languages and cultures.
- throwaway2990 3y agoThere is no list. Either you live in China and fill in your name in Chinese. Or you don’t live in China and you write your name in English.
- robjan 3y agoHong Kong is in China and everyone has an English legal name and most people have a Chinese legal name. The English name may be a Romanisation of the Chinese name, a western name or a combination. Depending on which combination of names you have, your nationality and the specific situation, the Chinese or English one may take precedence e.g some government departments prefer the Chinese name but most businesses prefer the English names unless it's a Mainland Chinese business.
- throwaway2990 3y agoYes. Doesn’t change anything. You fill in stuff for mainland. You use Chinese name. You fill in stuff for Hong Kong. It’s either in English or Chinese. But it’s slowly transitioning to Chinese only. As China eradicates all the English stuff and implements the red scarf Education in HK.
- numpad0 3y agoWait, Chinese application forms don't have two separate fields!? That adds to the list of falsehoods. Japanese ones always has one for surname, one for given, lines above for pronunciation always, except for signatures.
- throwaway2990 3y agoAll forms require name + id.