The names of China include the many contemporary and historical designations given in various languages for the East Asian country known as Zhōngguó (中国;...

Chinese names are personal names used by individuals from Greater China and other parts of the Sinophone world. Sometimes the same set of Chinese characters...

Place names in China primarily refers to Han Chinese names, but also to those used by China's minorities. In his study of place-names in China, J. E. Spencer...

Malaysia. Written Chinese names begin with surnames, unlike the Western tradition in which surnames are written last. Around 2,000 Han Chinese surnames are...

Chinese given names (Chinese: 名; pinyin: míng) are the given names adopted by speakers of the Chinese language, both in majority-Sinophone countries and...

Chinese era names, also known as reign mottos, were titles used by various Chinese dynasties and regimes in Imperial China for the purpose of year identification...

China (Taiwan), and the Chinese diaspora overseas as provided by the authoritative governments or academic sources. Chinese names also form the basis for...

name. This tradition is prevalent in the East Asian cultural sphere, particularly in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. Courtesy names are a marker of...

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the second-most populous...

Indonesian-sounding names. Furthermore, due to the absence of regulations in the past regarding the number of names in legal documents, some Chinese Indonesians...

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Japanese names for Japan are Nihon (にほん) and Nippon (にっぽん). They are both written in Japanese using the kanji 日本. Since the third century, Chinese called...

parents to name their children so that others are able to easily read their names, there are no restrictions on the complexity of Chinese characters used...

In the Chinese common religion and philosophical schools the idea of the universal God has been expressed in a variety of names and representations, most...

Chinese star names (Chinese: 星名, xīng míng) are named according to ancient Chinese astronomy and astrology. The sky is divided into star mansions (星宿,...

a list of the Chinese era names used by the various dynasties and regimes in the history of China, sorted by monarch. The English renditions of the era...

deprecations, so posthumous names are also commonly called respectful names (尊號; zūnhào) in Chinese. Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian extensively...

Wall of China (traditional Chinese: 萬里長城; simplified Chinese: 万里长城; pinyin: Wànlǐ Chángchéng, literally "ten thousand li long wall") is a series of fortifications...

commonly known as Taiwan. Due to the One-China principle stipulated by the People's Republic of China (PRC, China), Taiwan, being a non-UN member after its...

the era names of Chinese dynasties. Era names originated in 140 BCE in China, during the reign of the Emperor Wu of Han. Since the middle of the 6th century...

which is romanized from 北京, the Chinese name for this city. The pinyin system of transliteration was approved by the Chinese government in 1958, but little...

The Republic of China (ROC) began as a sovereign state in mainland China on 1 January 1912 following the 1911 Revolution, which overthrew the Manchu-led...

A naming taboo is a cultural taboo against speaking or writing the given names of exalted persons, notably in China and within the Chinese cultural sphere...

a domain name system for Chinese characters. Internationalized domain names Punycode Official web site Information on Registering a Chinese Domain Website...

Chinese Empire (or Empire of China) is a term referring to the realm ruled by the Emperor of China during the era known as Imperial China. It was coined...

Provinces (Chinese: 省; pinyin: Shěng) are the most numerous type of province-level divisions in the People's Republic of China (PRC). There are currently...

patronymic naming customs. On the other hand, Malaysian Chinese, some Malays and Bumiputera of Sabah and Sarawak use family names. Traditional Malay names were...

names began during the Shang dynasty in China and had since been adopted by other dynastic regimes in the Sinosphere, with the notable exception of Japan...

(Chinese: 百家姓), commonly known as Bai Jia Xing, also translated as Hundreds of Chinese Surnames, is a classic Chinese text composed of common Chinese surnames...

number-range that have received names, and explains the meanings of those names. Official naming citations of newly named small Solar System bodies are...