Talk:Chinese style name

Translations

Can we have some translations to show meaning of given names and the reference to them in the zi?

I've given an example in the article. To see more literal meaning of the characters, you can enter the character in a Chinese-English dictionary. Choose "Head Char." option on top of that page to see a character's full defintion. But you should be warned that not all Chinese characters have a literal meaning. Some are just proper nouns. Moreover, often there are several meanings to a character, it can therefore be unclear sometimes, even to native Chinese speaker that, which definition the namer meant. --Menchi 07:20 Feb 19, 2003 (UTC)

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External Link I think the external link "Introduction to Chinese Names" should be deleted - it looks pretty commercial, and gives no more information than the "See Also" wikipedia link. Haven't done it myself since it's been there for so long - maybe there is a reason? 80.141.230.100 01:13, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Agreed the link should be removed. There's so much more to a Chinese given name than a simple phonetic transliteration, which is what the site has done. Athanor (talk) 20:24, 28 December 2009 (UTC)

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Join Characters in Zi

Should we join the characters of a multi-character zi, as per Library of Congress guideline? See also Talk:Transcription of Chinese. --Menchi 09:29 Feb 19, 2003 (UTC)

go for it --User:kt2

Style vs. Style Name

Can the person who recently moved it from [Courtesy name] to [Style name] justify the move? I have never heard of "style name", just simply "style". I realize that the original intro that I myself wrote was ambiguous in saying: "...sometimes as style or courtesy name" [1]. But believe me, I did not mean it as "...sometimes as "style name" and sometimes as "courtesy name". --Menchi 01:55, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

Martial Name

Many pre-mao Chinese martial artists went by several names, which i've heard referred to as martial names, which where given to them by their sifu, are these the same as zi?

How much are they used?

The tradition of using style names has been fading away since the May Fourth Movement.

Would be useful to have some sense of how much it has faded. Do 1% of people get one these days? 10%? Are there particular regions of China where it remains popular? Tempshill 17:10, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

In fact,the style names are not used by 99.9% of modern Chinese people . There are no particular regions of China where it remains popular. --61.190.88.142 (talk) 13:59, 2 January 2009 (UTC)

Today, Chinese scholars may have 子 or 号.KJ (talk) 18:28, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

QASIM BUTT

QASIM &NISHA —Preceding unsigned comment added by 116.71.175.26 (talk) 04:48, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

"Famous"

What criteria should be used to determine if someone is "famous" enough to have their style name included among the examples? I see that an earlier version of this article stopped the list at Yue Fei. I respect the inclusion of everyone up to this point, as these are major historical figures that have been immortalized in literary, historical, or political texts. But are the 20th-century figures listed below Yue Fei recognizable enough to an English reader for inclusion in this article? I would guess that most Anglophone readers of this article would surely recognize the given names of most--if not all--of the figures listed from Laozi to Yue Fei; the others, however, would likely be much more obscure, with readers recognizing neither their given nor style names. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.119.5.232 (talk) 11:19, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

Agreed. I went ahead and removed the less famous names. --Zanhe (talk) 01:39, 4 December 2011 (UTC)