val1

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From :   val

Date : 2010-02-01 / 03:47PM

Last question of the day!!!!!! where can I find a dictionary of chinese names…. or something like that…. I want to write a letter to my friend Mai Yui in Taiwan…… where would I find the characters for her name and the names of others in traditional characters?

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 Benny the Mandarin Teacher askbenny.net 
2010-02-01 / 04:40PM

Hi Val,

I think even if you have the dictionary, you still don’t know the characters for her names, because it could be hundreds of possibilities pending on the different tones. Even with the same tone, the characters could still be different.

The only way is to ask your friend how to write her name correctly, otherwise, we can only guess her name in Characters.

Benny



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