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Hua Shengdun goes hard af as a translated name, honestly (media.piefed.social)
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[–] RandomStickman@fedia.io 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I want to add that even today, it's the convention to refer to foreign names using the closest sounding Chinese characters. 華盛頓 is simply how George Washington would be referred to in Chinese today. Which character is used can also vary depending on the dialect/language used because it is pronunciation based, and the different dialect/language are pronounced differently (duh).

Trump, for example, is 特朗普 dak6 long5 pou2 in Cantonese and 川普 Chuān pǔ in Mandarin. Biden is the same for both, 拜登 baai3 dang1 in Cantonese and Bài dēng in Mandarin.

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

baai3 dang1

(goodbye darn)