Why does this region of the world has so much trouble with creating unique names?
Why does this region of the world has so much trouble with creating unique names?
Wyatt Fisher
Samuel Barnes
*have
Benjamin Jones
what is a unique name in the first place
Jeremiah Bennett
can you rephrase your question in a manner that makes sense to non-autistic people?
Thomas White
>Japanese family names are extremely varied: according to estimates, there are over 100,000 different surnames in use today in Japan.[2]
Luis Davis
When the war ended, Chinese birth rate grew up but the parent are not literate enough to come up with a good name.
Mason Young
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Brayden Rogers
That's because you didn't own a last name before meiji.
Asher Lewis
Meiji era Japs are extremely creative then?
Jose Stewart
Arr sound same
Ryan Lopez
Holy fucking shit, i can't believe china is actually green and mongolia brownish. This really made me think.
Benjamin Adams
t. paco fernandes
Kevin Ross
So Chinese peasants had surnames?
Christopher Cruz
Not really.
Leo Hall
Yes, they did.
Connor Bell
They all had the same names thats why you have 1000000 Tchang, since they claim they all descend from the ancestor Tchang
Japanese dont care that much about very distant ancestors unlike chinese, its more about parents, grandparents, sometimes more but its about your ancestors you can remember personally
Jaxson Sanchez
Total bullshit
Evan Flores
Chinese and Koreans use only one character for their family names
like 毛(Mao) 習(Xi) 李(Lee) 金(Kim) 朴(Park)
or at least most of their families do
Japanese people use mainly 1~3, sometimes 4 characters
like 佐藤(Sato) 鈴木(Suzuki) 乳房(Chibusa)
just that fact alone gives us more variety
Mason Johnson
>乳房
Nolan Phillips
>乳房
Ethan Foster
Because the Chinese started using surnames thousands of years ago. Over time some of the names obviously die out.
Carter Collins
en.wikipedia.org
>Chinese names are a well-studied example of surname extinction: there are currently only about 3,100 surnames in use in China, compared with close to 12,000 recorded in the past, with 22% of the population sharing the names Li, Wang and Zhang (numbering close to 300 million people), and the top 200 names covering 96% of the population. Names have changed or become extinct for various reasons such as people taking the names of their rulers, orthographic simplifications, taboos against using characters from an emperor's name, among others. While family name lines dying out may be a factor in the surname extinction, it is by no means the only or even a significant factor. Indeed, the most significant factor affecting the surname frequency is other ethnic groups identifying as Han and adopting Han names. Further, while new names have arisen for various reasons, this has been outweighed by old names disappearing.
>By contrast, some nations have adopted family names only recently. This means both that they have not experienced surname extinction for an extended period, and that the names were adopted when the nation had a relatively large population, rather than the smaller populations of ancient times. Further, these names have often been chosen creatively and are very diverse. Examples include:
>Japanese names, which in general use date only to the Meiji restoration in the late 19th century (when the population was over 30,000,000), have over 100,000 family names, surnames are very varied, and the government restricts married couples to using the same surname.
Josiah Reyes
Stop shit posting (; ･`ω･´)