 chinese personal names () are names adopted by those from mainland china, hong kong, macau, taiwan, and the chinese diaspora overseas. they arose from the culture of the han people. in some cases, the term may also refer to chinese names adopted by or used to refer to people from other areas. chinese names typically consist of three syllablesa monosyllabic family name and a disyllabic given namewith each syllable having a particular tone and being written as a single chinese character. about one in seven people have a two-syllable name, and fewer than one-fifth of one percentmany of them ethnic minoritiesthe xinhua net article "æå½æ±æå¬æ°æé¿å§åè¾¾15å­" (op. cit.) reported that in 2007 97% of all chinese names longer than 10 characters were held by citizens living in xinjiang.have a name of four or more syllables; most han chinese that have names longer than four characters have compound surnames (e.g. ouyang kunpeng or da-hong seetoo).ä½æ¥ä¸­ (12 dec 2007). "æå½æ±æå¬æ°æé¿å§åè¾¾15å­ å¬å®é¨ï¼èµ·åä¸è§èä¼æä¸ä¾¿". xinhua net. accessed 16 mar 2012.  chinese names originated the eastern ordering of names, where the family name precedes the given name. a boy called wei () and belonging to the zhang () familycurrently china's most common single namebeijing news. "ä¸ä¸ªâå¼ ä¼âæ¾å°29ä¸äºº". 26 jul 2007. accessed 16 mar 2012. is called "zhang wei" and not "wei zhang" (unless he is travelling abroad). it is standard for the chinese to address one anotherespecially those with two-character namesby using full names. so normally, zhang wei would be formally addressed as "mr. zhang" and informally as "zhang wei" â never as "wei" or "mr. wei". the two halves of the name are almost always treated as indivisible units. there is no equivalent of english middle names, which are both officially and generally ignored. currently china's most common three-character namemight be called "wang xiuying" or simply "xiuying". under normal circumstances, one should not refer her as "wang xiu" or "wang ying" and omit the other half of her given name. chinese people interacting with others who do not know characters romanize their names in a variety of ways, although [
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