Not being racist, but why do must chinesse names have 2 names?like jin-jin, lee-lee, etc..
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China isn't a race -- so no chance of your question being racist. Chinese, like most East Asian languages, features a naming system for individuals that places the family name first. In fact, more people on earth use the family-name-first system than don't. So John Allan Bull in England would see his name in China appear in the sequence; Bull John Allan. Likewise, in Chinese there is a high opportunity for homonyms. A good example would be Ma. In some Chinese dialects there are more than 40 different characters that would be romanized as Ma. They have different meanings even though they are romanized in the same way. Sometimes names that sound repetitive when pronounced in a different language are actually homonyms for two different characters. In some cases the given names are not homonyms, but a repetition of the same character. The Chinese Diver Guo Jing Jing was given a name that uses the same character for Jing. This is simply a naming practice common among some circles in the Han Chinese community.
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I don't know - no.
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