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Q: What's the most ridiculous Chinese name given to a foreigner you've heard?
A few years back, I met a (white) guy studying Chinese who'd given himself the name 白龙 (white dragon). You can guy what part of his body he was referring to.
What classically terrible/awesome names have you heard?
Well my Sioux Indian name is 'He who carries the wind' but the Chinese translation only suggests I have problems with flatulence, so I don't use it much, favouring instead to carry the name 'ke lin po le' which loosely translates as Colin Powell, after my hero, the much respected political figure himself. Unfortunately this also causes trouble as many of my Chinese friends prefer to speak to me in English and end up calling me Colon Power. Now that's 'pretty' rediculous, right?
TedDBayer:
I heard you were called Lan se Tianshi, famous for being silent but violent and the triple tone backdraft.
There was this guy I really could not stand. So, when I heard that he wanted a Chinese name I wanted to call him Wei shen Jie （卫生间）. My friends did not allow it. It means "toilet"....
I know a guy but i don't know him really close just know something about him..........His surname is bird and his Chinese name is Niao and he is a teacher so the chinese people and students always call him Lao Shi Niao..............You know what they say about "Niao" in china .......right?!!!!.......HaHa ......Many Many meanings for the same word.............Anything pops up to your minds now?!!!!
Bona:
This must be your own invention. There is no way a Chinese, even a 3 year old, would say something like 'laoshi + name'. Rather it's 'name + laoshi'. Little kids know this.So this 'laoshi Niao', hahaha, try another one.
Createach:
i did not make it up..............He should be called Niao Lao Shi..............But the Niao is funny and calling him Lao Shi before Niao is even more funny.......You just did not get the funny part here
I go by the handle 'Dabai SanQian' which means 'Big White 3000' in my own mind in my first week in China.
Nobody seems to correct me or even seems to care so I think I'll go with it.
zhao ma fan
that was actually the name a friend on mine gave me cause everytime i heard people referring at me with the word laowai...
qin:
its really not a good name :) its means make troubles , so , kick his ass no matter who gave u this name :)
i know what it means and it was somekinda joke from an old friend...
I met one guy who called himself 神经病 after a joke with some friends. The Chinese people he met had a good laugh at his name -- which was his intention. It was mostly the young ones, the older generation just stared at him like he was a crazed degenerate.
He would refer to his Chinese skills as "神经病" as well. When I took a taxi with him, he said to the taxi driver, "我想和你在一起去到飞机的家。对不起，我的普通话神经病。谢谢你" (translated as: I would like to go with you together to the flying machine's (plane's) home. Sorry, my Mandarin is fucking psycho. Thank you!" The taxi driver just stared blankly at him for 2 minutes, and then took us to the airport.
