I have recently acquired a Chinese name, courtesy of my friend Chika and Ollie's mother. It is 吉利華, which is gat1 lei6 wa4 in Cantonese and jī lì huá in Mandarin. My Japanese name (courtesy of a certain book about a certain person who shares my name who went on a certain journey) is ガリバー, or Garibâ.
This led me onto doing some reading about naming traditions… mostly on Wikipedia, but all the same, it was interesting.
Might add more later.
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