Know anyone with a dog named “Coca Cola”, shortened to “Cola” (可乐 )? Turns out that is also in fact a real life surname for a human in China.
认识谁养了一只叫“可口可乐”的狗吗？ 事实证明，这实际上也是中国人在现实生活中的姓氏。
Now everywhere has weird names. In the western world, many are the result of marriage whereby a maiden name is lost to a new surname which, when combined with the forename, can have some pretty hilarious consequences. This correspondent’s sister’s name rhymes, for example (it’s in French so the pronunciation might be a little lost here, but you get the point).
现在到处都有奇怪的名字。 在西方世界，許多人是婚姻的結果，即婚前姓氏被新姓氏所失去，如果與名字相結合，可能會產生一些非常搞笑的後果。 例如，这位记者的妹妹的名字押韵（它是法语的，所以这里的发音可能有点丢失，但你明白重点）。
Much fun has also been made during the last decade of the English names Chinese people choose for themselves. How may people do you know called Echo, Unicorn, even Stone and Mr. Zero (Remember him, and how we’re not to mess with him?).
在過去的十年裡，中國人為自己選擇的英文名字也很有趣。 你怎麼會知道叫Echo、Unicorn、甚至Stone和Mr. Zero的人（還記得他，以及我們怎麼能不惹他？）。
Writing as to the economic opportunity for Chinese youth, Geoff Gibson noted in a 2017 article for this very publication, “Emilys can send out forty resumes in Australia and will get at least some responses. Echos will get none. Claires will get interviews. Apples won’t. Jessicas will, in many cases, get the jobs they want in Sydney or London but, alas, there will be none for Unicorn.”
关于中国青年的经济机会，Geoff Gibson在2017年为该出版物撰写的一篇文章中指出：“Emilys可以在澳大利亚发送四十份简历，至少会得到一些回复。 回声不会得到任何东西。 Claires将接受采访。 苹果不会。 在许多情况下，Jessicas会在悉尼或伦敦得到他们想要的工作，但可惜的是，独角兽不会有工作。”
But the fact is, sometimes the Middle Kingdom can give its people some pretty weird Chinese names too.
但事实是，有时中王国也会给人民起一些非常奇怪的中文名字。
Meet Mr. Plaza (广场), Mrs. Exhibition (展览), Miss Car (汽车) and Master Temperature (温度), all real-world Chinese surnames, albeit they admittedly few and far between.
认识广场先生、展览夫人、汽车小姐和温度大师，这些都是现实世界的中国姓氏，尽管它们很少。
These odd Chinese equivalents of double-barrelled surnames are not the end of the story. For China would not be China if there weren’t any people named after numbers, preferably those implying economic prosperity. It should therefore not come as a surprise that there exist a few folk wandering around today surnamed “Hundred” (百), “Thousand” (千), “Billion” (十亿) and “Trillion” (兆). Care should be exercised with the last; it also means “omen”.
这些奇怪的中国等同于双桶姓氏并不是故事的结束。 因为如果没有以数字命名的人，最好是那些暗示经济繁荣的人，中国就不会是中国。 因此，毫不奇怪，今天有一些人四处游荡，姓“百”、“千”、“十亿”和“兆”。 应该用最后一个来小心；它也意味着“预兆”。
But not every “number name” may be financially auspicious. Because yes, there is also a Mr. Zero in China. “Ling” (零) is indeed a surname, but again, thankfully, like the Echoes and Unicorns before him, a very rare one.
但并非每个“数字名称”在财务上都是吉祥的。 因为，是的，中国也有零先生。 “零”确实是一个姓氏，但同样值得庆幸的是，就像他之前的回声和独角兽一样，这是一个非常罕见的姓氏。
