Courtesy name - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Courtesy name (Zi) | |
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Chinese name | |
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Traditional Chinese | (表) 字 |
Hanyu Pinyin | (biǎo) zì |
Wade–Giles | (piao)-tzu |
Vietnamese name | |
Vietnamese alphabet | tự |
Chữ Hán | 字 |
Korean name | |
Hangul | 자 |
Hanja | 字 |
Revised Romanization | ja |
McCune–Reischauer | cha |
In East Asia, a courtesy name (Chinese: 字; pinyin: zì; literally: "character") is a name given to a person when they become an adult. It is also known as a style name.[1] Today, not many Chinese people have courtesy names.
References
[change | change source]- ↑ Wilkinson, Endymion Porter (2018). Chinese History: A New Manual. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Asia Center. p. 143-145. ISBN 978-0998888309.