Chinese names

[dopierrebozo]

is there a standard way of translating Chinese names to Japanese? for example, my full name in chinese is 黄勤胜(huang qin sheng) and my name that appears on english documents..etc is Ng Ching Sheng

[KeroGero]

You can carry the characters over. After all, Kanji came from the Chinese. Pronounciation may change a little, so you can use furigana to hold the original pronounciation as close as possible, but it's pretty much the same.

[AJBryant]

Typically, the kanji are unchanged but the pronunciation follows Japanese rules (in on'yomi).

Tony

[wakuiz]

aww..singaporean hmm...i am thinking how come japanese and chinese write the same word but they speak not same...

[AJBryant]

i am thinking how come japanese and chinese write the same word but they speak not same...

SO all those people who use the Latin alphabet should speak the same?

Tony

[Harisenbon]

Most Chinese people in Japan use Katakana for their name, as a lot of kanji's pronunciation changes too much to be used in Japan.There are also a large number of Chinese Kanji that are not in common usage in Japan, and the readings are not generally known.

On official forms, I *believe* they use the Chinese characters, and then put the katakana pronunciation above in the ふりがな box.

[netarou]

Your name 黄勤胜 is pronounced as オウキンショウ (oh kin shoh) in Japanese, FYI.

[AJBryant]

I was thinking コウ・キンショウ... one of those things where there are multiple pronunciations.

Tony

[dopierrebozo]

Ahh, thanks, everyone