Transliteration of foreign names
Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2004 11:12 am
Hi everybody,
is there a set of characters that are used only for transliteration? I started learning chinese characters to transliterate Latvian names. As far as I can understand these ~220 characters I have learned are always the same except for some that could confuse a Chinese reader and let him think that Anna is a boy, if a wrong "na" is used. Am I right? In one word to say, my name Valdis can be transliterated only as WaErDiSi, Dnepropetrovsk as DeNiePuLuoPeiTeLuoFuSiKe, a.s.o. and always with the same characters. Or maybe every chinese person would write my name slightly or sometimes even totally differently?
is there a set of characters that are used only for transliteration? I started learning chinese characters to transliterate Latvian names. As far as I can understand these ~220 characters I have learned are always the same except for some that could confuse a Chinese reader and let him think that Anna is a boy, if a wrong "na" is used. Am I right? In one word to say, my name Valdis can be transliterated only as WaErDiSi, Dnepropetrovsk as DeNiePuLuoPeiTeLuoFuSiKe, a.s.o. and always with the same characters. Or maybe every chinese person would write my name slightly or sometimes even totally differently?