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Q: What kind of Chinese name do you have?
Is it an "authentic sounding" name (Zhang Jincheng), a completely gibberish one (Yi Ersan *1-23*) or one that simply sounds like your native name?
Is there any sort of benefit to having one over the other?
I think some people like to have a Chinese name so they can talk s@%t to their friends when they are in their country to sound cool.
on the other hand it might be easier for Chinese to remember
Same as when Chinese take on a English name
My Wife uses Helena in Australia and I think it is because most Australians cant pronounce her Chinese name (due to being lazy)
for me the closest thing I have to a Chinese name is Lao wai
which could also mean Smith here
My GF says my Chinese name is very silly 
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But it is very easy to write ahahah : Wang Ming Shan (王明山)
BHGAL:
that is not easy to write ............ yu er san, is easy to write
Had to have a proper Chinese name, so its some chars that sounds a bit like my real name. Got a silly nickname too in Chinese.
my father-in-law named me Bù lái'ēn 布莱恩..sounds like Brian, sort of
Tai-dí-xiong, I've had the similar name since I was 6, most shorten it to Bear. The cottage party animal was Barbearian, the disco version was Bearbareno
wang hung lo.
but my gf calls me 'bao bao' 
981977405:
Oh...that's interesting...there was another user around here with the moniker wang hung lo....
Fuck that. I have one name. I have to memorise all these Chinese names, so they'll have to remember my Western name.
I just accepted the name my first waiban gave me. But every time I tell someone my name they laugh. But they remember it. I can walk down a street I used to live on ten years ago and shop keepers still call out my name. They remember it.
Tell me your surname, I will give you a brilliant Chinese name
马丁
