A STUDENT in Hong Kong has such a complex name that teachers and classmates resorted to addressing him simply as “hey” to avoid mispronouncing his name, China Press reported.
The Chinese characters of his name, Xuan Bingda, is written with 103 strokes. It is a homonym in Cantonese to mean “soaring success and prosperity”.
However, the characters chosen for his name were so obscure and difficult to write that other people could not pronounce them correctly.
The secondary school student has shared online about the impracticalities of having such a name, saying that it took him a long time to write his name on exam scripts.
Xuan, who envied his classmates who have simpler names, is despondent as his parents were against his idea of changing his name once he turns 18.
To them, changing one’s name was inauspicious.
When his name went viral, many Internet users sympathised with him.
“He is already at a disadvantage just from writing his own name,” one netizen wrote.
> Monster, who is the lead guitarist of Taiwanese rock band Mayday, is a father again after his wife gave birth to their second child, China Press reported.
“You know, four people can do many fun things. For example, we can play basketball. We can have two teams. Mum and I on one team, you and your sister on the other,” he wrote on social media about the birth of his son.
Prior to this, he had shared a photo on Instagram of him gazing at his pregnant wife as their daughter rested her face on the baby bump.
As to whether his son would grow to love playing the guitar, the 49-year-old musician wrote: “If you want to, I have plenty of amazing guitars you can borrow.”
Monster, whose real name is Wen Shang-yi, got married in 2015. His daughter was born in 2021.
Mayday debuted in 1999 and remains one of the best-selling rock bands in the Chinese-speaking world.
The above article is compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with this ' >'sign, it denotes a separate news item.
