Simon - I have a question: I think I've seen Chinese names written in both orders. That is, sometimes "Hui Deng" will be written "Deng Hui". Am I right? Does this happen often? What is the most common order? To me, as a native Chinese, "Hui Deng" is written in English, while "Deng Hui" is written in Pinyin (Chinese phonetic alphabet) . Best Regards, Leaf -----Original Message----- From: ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx [mailto:ietf-bounces@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Simon Perreault Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 9:58 PM To: ietf@xxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Regarding call Chinese names Le 2013-07-11 02:04, Hui Deng a écrit : > We submitted two drafts to help people here to correctly call chinese > people names: > > http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-deng-call-chinese-names-00 > http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-zcao-chinese-pronounce-00 Very cool! Thanks for writing this! I have a question: I think I've seen Chinese names written in both orders. That is, sometimes "Hui Deng" will be written "Deng Hui". Am I right? Does this happen often? What is the most common order? Is there a way to guess what order a name is written in? Sometimes it's not easy for non-Sinophones to know which part is the given name and which part is the family name. Thanks, Simon