Re: Chinese forced to change their name hanzi

From: Andrew West (andrewcwest@gmail.com)
Date: Tue Apr 21 2009 - 06:19:12 CDT

  • Next message: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven: "Re: Chinese forced to change their name hanzi"

    2009/4/21 Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai@in-nomine.org>:
    >
    > Encountered this article
    > http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/world/asia/21china.html where it details
    > how a Chinese woman is requested to change her name of 马骋(騁) to something
    > else because "[t]he bureau’s computers, however, are programmed to read only
    > 32,252 of the roughly 55,000 Chinese characters, according to a 2006
    > government report."
    >
    > Apparently the 骋(騁) hanzi is causing them problems.

    The character in question is actually 𩧢 (U+299E2). See:

    <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naming_laws_in_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China#Ma_Cheng>

    Andrew

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