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For example, if a southern person is named 何利福 or 何丽福, in the standard Mandarin spelling system called pinyin, these names will be represented as hé lì fú, but in Cantonese, this name is likely to be transcribed as Ho Lee Fuk. 何利福 or 何丽福 literally means fortune and happiness, or beauty and happiness.Ī Korean American named Suey wrote powerfully in this post, The Role of Media in Modern Day Racism. While some sounds are ‘funny’ to the western ears, they’re definitely not to the Chinese. The use of the alphabet system in transcription is just a convenient way to decipher the Chinese characters, some of which are pictographs. In Malaysia, where Chinese names are still transcribed in alphabet letters based on the sound of the language spoken by their ancestors, (Cantonese, Hokkien, Hakka, Hainan, Teochew etc.), a person whose surname is 何 will have his surname transcribed as hé in Mandarin, and ho or hor in Cantonese and Hokkien. This character is pronounced fú in standard Mandarin Chinese, ‘fuk’ in Cantonese, and ‘hok’ in Hokkien, my mother tongue. This special word is 福, meaning luck and happiness. Last year, I wrote a craft post, The Only Chinese Word You Need to Know. On name formation, while some English speakers may think “Ho Lee Fuk” is a totally ridiculous name, it can actually be a respectful, genuine name in its original Chinese characters. You don’t need to have a linguistic degree to feel that these names sound ‘funny’ in English: Something Wrong, We Too Low, Holy Fxxx, and Bang Ding Ow (Note: The plane made a bang on the runway, and ‘ding’ was heard, then people cried, “ow”.)

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The news anchor from KTVC, a TV station serving San Francisco Bay Area, told viewers the purported names of the pilots on Asiana Flight 214 were: “Sum Ting Wong,” “Wi Tu Lo,” “Ho Lee Fuk”, and “Bang Ding Ow”. People now seemed to remember the pilots’ fake oriental sounding names. However, the media was not interested in these names, which carried their parents’ hope and love.

Their names in Chinese meant “fulfilling dreams’, ‘grace’, and ‘lush’ respectively. How many people remember the victims’ names? The girls’ names were: Ye Mengyuan 叶梦圆, Wang Linjia 王琳佳, and Liu Yipeng 刘易芃.

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In response to Lorelle’s blog exercises: How to Write about Something Someone Else Wrote, I’ll examine this tragedy from a fresh angle, a person’s name and its cultural identity. Their dream of a fun and exciting summer camp in America was cruelly shattered.

The girls from Zhejiang, an eastern coastal province in China, were passengers on the South Korean Asiana Airlines Flight 214.

Three teenage girls from China recently died, when their plane smashed into a sea wall in front of the runway at San Francisco International Airport on 6 July.