请教人名翻译

wherestip wrote:

Chinese Dragon --> Loong?

wherestip wrote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wade–Giles

Well, it doesn't seem like there's really any interest in discussing the new standard of using Hanyu Pinyi vs. using the traditional Wade–Giles system for Chinese names.

But let me just say this. IMO, the new system is a tremendous disservice to the Chinese people. English pronunciation is not the same as Hanyu Pinyin. The Wade-Giles system was actually based on scholarly research instead of some ignorant arbitrary decree.

For example, in English pronunciation, the sound of "tung" actually comes a lot closer to 东 than that of "dong". More importantly, the tung pronunciation is a lot less prone to being the butt of some prankster's joke.

jyuan_us wrote:

都是医生，通常上网查，如果一篇文章有超过5个名字我会让客户提供。有时客户无法提供，就会适当加一些费用让我使劲查。

我也不会用威氏拼法，而且即使会用，也不主张用。台湾那里美国回去的很多，有时他们的OFFICIAL NAME是美国名字。也有老家香港的，更不能用威氏拼法了。所以，能在网上找到的最好，不能的话只好让客户提供。

我就见过“许”字，有好几种官方拼法。所以，还是别自己造。

有时大陆名字也需要客户提供，没办法的事，比如朝字。客户不提供的话，你有40%的机率犯错误。