Ouyang Wulong is my Chinese name. (I live in China and speak fluent Mandarin) I can't type the characters for you hear because it would appear that the clipcast applet isn't unicode yet.

Ouyang is a traditional Chinese surname, famously used by the poet Ouyang Xiu, and the kungfu villan Ouyang Feng (Watch the Ashes of Time for more on that dude). Ou is the same character used for Europe, although it originally means to vomit. (I know, weird.) Yang means sun. So if I were to translate this surname it would come accross as something like "Sunburst." Two character surnames are very rare in China. I've only met two people who ever had the same surname name as me. Surnames like Zhang, Zhao, Li, ...

Ouyang Wulong is my Chinese name. (I live in China and speak fluent Mandarin) I can't type the characters for you hear because it would appear that the clipcast applet isn't unicode yet.

Ouyang is a traditional Chinese surname, famously used by the poet Ouyang Xiu, and the kungfu villan Ouyang Feng (Watch the Ashes of Time for more on that dude). Ou is the same character used for Europe, although it originally means to vomit. (I know, weird.) Yang means sun. So if I were to translate this surname it would come accross as something like "Sunburst." Two character surnames are very rare in China. I've only met two people who ever had the same surname name as me. Surnames like Zhang, Zhao, Li, and Liu, on the other hand, are extreemly popular.

Wulong is a two-character given name. This combines to make my name unusually, although not implausably, long. Wu is the character for enlightenment and understanding. It is traditionally used in Buddhist names. Most famously, the Monkey King in The Journey to the West was named Sun Wu Kong. (Wu in this case partnered with Kong, which means emptyness or air, and thus reflecting that he was a master of the air, with the supernatural ability to fly.)

In my name I have partnered it with "Long" meaning Dragon. It's cool, a little bit bad ass, rolls off the tounge, and has a good secondary meaning, since Long is the symbol of China, my name could be read as: he who understands China.

All in all, though, it's a fairly outrageous name, and impossible to forget. Chinese people love it. It's way larger than life. I was once told by a Chinese friend of mine that picking this name would be like if he named himself "Orlando Cadilac Jones" in English, which, by the way, will be the name of my first born son.