Name Translation Manual (Fourth Edition)

Author: Xinhua News Agency
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: This manual's translation applies to all English-speaking countries and ethnic groups. Today, English-speaking countries have complex ethnic compositions, especially in the United States, where a large number of non-English ethnic groups have been naturalized as local citizens and have occupied important positions in various sectors of their countries. Their names often appear in various media and publications. Regarding the Chinese translation of these names, this manual strives to refer to the phonetic information from English and American name dictionaries and pronunciation dictionaries. For foreign names without phonetic information, those with obvious ethnic language characteristics are translated into Chinese according to the original ethnic language naming rules, while others are translated according to English naming rules.