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"Most Chinese names have 3 or 2 characters, with the first character being the surname and the remaining characters being the first name."

    ...TransName.com

"Commoners were not allowed to use family names until after the Meiji Restoration of 1868, when they were allowed to create a surname or borrow an existing one."

 ...Japanorama.com


"Vietnamese consider names to be part of the soul and thus sacred. A person's name should never be spoken angrily or casually."

 ...ThingsAsian.com

"The family name comes first, followed by the given names. Most Korean have 2 given names but some only have one.... Groups with the same family name are divided by ancestry into branches."

 ... Monash University

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