Comment by koakuma-chan
1 day ago
I have never seen a Chinese name that's just two consonants and ZERO vowels. Is Ng some kind of special case? Also interestingly if you put his Chinese name 吳恩達 into Google Translate, you literally get "Andrew Ng"
1 day ago
I have never seen a Chinese name that's just two consonants and ZERO vowels. Is Ng some kind of special case? Also interestingly if you put his Chinese name 吳恩達 into Google Translate, you literally get "Andrew Ng"
> I have never seen a Chinese name that's just two consonants and ZERO vowels.
One difference is in Mandarin pinyin vs other stuff
Like in Mandarin pinyin 子 turns into zi, but a lot of Cantonese transliterations will have it as tsz.
(Notably, not the more "official" Cantonese transliterations, where it would be written as zi or ji)
It is still pretty rare though, yea. I can't even think of others off the top of my head