Chinese Give New Character to Names
From Reuters
BEIJING —
China, the world’s most populous country with about 1.1 billion people, is running out of names.
The official China Daily reported Sunday that there were so many cases of duplicated two- and three-character names--such as Deng Xiaoping--that parents were adding a fourth character to give their children some individuality.
In the northeast province of Shandong, there are now more than 2,800 people with four-character names, the newspaper said.
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