Naming

Home & Living 6 min Automatic furigana holds up on words and loses track of new baby names Furigana are the small kana that show how Japanese kanji are read, and software mostly gets them right on ordi... AM Amelia Wong 2 Nov ASEAN Tech 6 min A Korean passport says LEE where the letter table says I South Korea's passport rule spells a name syllable by syllable from an official letter table, but that table's... SA Sarah Chew 2 Nov Home & Living 6 min Choosing an English name from your Chinese name, by sound or meaning Research describes three ways people come by an English name: one that sounds like their Chinese name, one cho... AM Amelia Wong 27 Sep ASEAN Tech 5 min Japan changed its romanisation rules and left names alone December 2025 replaced the 1954 standard and made Hepburn the basis after roughly seventy years. It explicitly... SA Sarah Chew 1 Sep ASEAN Tech 6 min Korea's romanisation rules never covered surnames Apply the official standard to the four commonest Korean surnames and you get Gim, I, Bak and Choe. Passports... SA Sarah Chew 1 Sep ASEAN Tech 6 min What passports do when you have only one name The near-universal advice is to write FNU in the empty given-name box. That is not an ICAO rule. The standard... SA Sarah Chew 1 Sep Business 12 min Naming a Company in Malaysia and Singapore: What SSM and ACRA Actually Accept Your first three names get rejected and nobody explains why. Both registries run a mechanical test: they strip... EV Eva Chin 29 Jul