Talk:Ho Fuk Yan

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Can't seem to find anything on this person

Does anyone know if perhaps there a different name he goes by? -- OlEnglish ^(Talk) 23:26, 29 March 2009 (UTC)

From my talk page:

I looked up the guy's name, and apparently he is a real person. He has a Chinese wiki page: http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%BD%95%E7%A6%8F%E4%BB%81

His Chinese name is 何福仁 . My Chinese isn't perfect, but I think that is pronounced He Furen in Mandarin. This guy is from Hong Kong, so Ho Fukyan is a Cantonese pronunciation. And I think "Ho Fukyan" is probably the correct way to transliterate his name into English, not Ho Fuk Yan." But I may be wrong. I found a website with a photo of him:

http://paper.wenweipo.com/2008/05/12/BK0805120003.htm

I don't know how prominent he is though. There are a lot of Chinese sure names that look like slang in English, such as Ho written in the Wade Giles system, and Wang and Tang from the Pin Yin system, so it can be a bit confusing. David Straub (talk) 18:45, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

-- OlEnglish ^(Talk) 02:40, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

I don't speak Cantonese, but I know Ho is the transliteration for 何 in that language (transliterated He in Mandarin), and the rest looks probably right, too. So this page is not a joke, if that's what you're worried about. rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 15:35, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

And about the spacing, I would probably stick with Ho Fuk Yan. While Hanyu Pinyin (He Furen) is supposed to not have spaces in the given name, a lot of Chinese using other transliteration systems (esp. overseas Chinese, Malaysians, Singaporeans, etc.) use the spaced spelling. Lee Kuan Yew, Tan Boon Heong, etc. rʨanaɢ ^talk/_contribs 15:37, 8 December 2009 (UTC)