The name Guandong later came to be used more narrowly for the area of the Kwantung Leased Territory on the Liaodong Peninsula.

This name was also used by the Japanese to their leased territory of Dalian, as Kwantung Chou, and its Kwantung Army which was later mobilized to set up the puppet state of Manchukuo in Northeast China.

Its name derives from the Sanskrit word for " wheel " or " turning " ( चक ् र ं, pronounced in Hindi ; Pali: cakka चक ् क, Oriya: ଚକ ୍ ର, Malayalam: ചക ് ര ം, Thai: จ ั กระ, Telugu: చక ్ రo, Tamil: சக ் கரம ், Kannada: ಚಕ ್ ರ, Chinese: 輪 / 轮, pinyin: lún,, Wylie: khor lo ).

In Mandarin Chinese pinyin the name of the letter Z is pronounced, although the English zed and zee have become very common.

Gladys May Aylward ( Chinese name: 艾偉德, pinyin: ài wěi dé ) ( 24 February 1902 – 3 January 1970 ) was the evangelical Christian missionary to China whose story was told in the book The Small Woman by Alan Burgess, published in 1957.

While at school in Hong Kong he got the name Yat Sen ( 逸仙 ; Hanyu pinyin: Yìxiān ).

Henry Norman Bethune ( March 4, 1890 – November 12, 1939 ; Chinese name: 白求恩 ; pinyin: Bái Qiúēn ) was a Canadian physician and medical innovator.

* Woo's film was partially inspired by the 1967 Lung Kong film 英雄本色 ( pinyin Yīngxióng běnsè ) which has the same Chinese name but a different English name: Story of a Discharged Prisoner, which is # 39 on the Hong Kong Film Awards list of the Top 100 Chinese Films.

Kung was a 75th generation descendant of Confucius, as indicated by the generation name 祥 ( Hsiang ; pinyin: Xiáng ).

This makes " Shaanxi " the only name of Chinese provinces that has not been romanized according to pinyin rules.

Proper use of pinyin romanization means treating the surname and given name as precisely two separate words with no spaces between the letters of multiple characters.

The name was transliterated to Kirin before standardization to pinyin.

The short name for Jiangxi is 赣 ( pinyin: Gàn ; Gan: Gōm ), for the Gan River which runs across from the south to the north and flows into the Yangtze River.

One of the Eight Immortals, Philosopher Han Xiang ( 韓湘子 in pinyin: hán xiāng zi ) or Han Xiang Zi, in Wade-Giles as Han Hsiang Tzu, was born Han Xiang during the Tang Dynasty, and his courtesy name is Qingfu ( 清夫 qīng fū ).

Li Houzhu () ( 937 – 978 ), also known as Houzhu of Southern Tang ( 南唐後主, literally " the latter lord of Southern Tang "), personal name Li Yu ( 李煜 ), né Li Congjia ( 李從嘉 ), courtesy name Chongguang ( 重光 ; pinyin: chòngguāng ), posthumously known as Prince of Wu ( 吳王 ), was the last ruler of the Southern Tang Kingdom from 961 to 975 during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period.

Yan Song (; pinyin: Yán Sōng ; 1480 – 1567 ), courtesy name: Weizhong ( 惟中 ), pseudonym: Jiexi ( 介溪 ), was a corrupt Ming Chinese Chief Grand Secretary who became a homeless pauper.

The region's name, Shōnan, derives from a scenic region in Hunan, China, encapsulated in the phrase 瀟湘湖南 ( Chinese pinyin: " xiāo xiāng hú nán "; Japanese: " shōshō konan ").

In Japan, the scenery of the Shōnan area was thought to be similar to the scenery around the Xiao and Xiang rivers in Hunan, China ; hence the term " Shōnan " ( Chinese pinyin: " xiāng nán ", another name for the southern Hunan region ) came to be applied to the area around Enoshima in Japan.

* Keelung ( 基隆市 ), or Jilong from its pinyin name, city of Taiwan, Republic of China

The Chinese name in pinyin of this dish is called chao shan hu.

Initially the official English version of the city's name was assigned to be Xinbei City by the county authority, which is the pinyin transliteration of the Chinese city name.

Saint Joseph Freinademetz, S. V. D., ( Chinese name: 若瑟聖福 / 若瑟圣福, pinyin: Shèngfú Ruòsè ) ( April 15, 1852-January 28, 1908 ) as a member of the Society of the Divine Word, was a missionary in China.

Out of necessity and for safety issues, when Jinjue needed a new identification card after China's victory over Japan, he gave himself the dharma name of Hsing Yun ( spelled in Wade Giles pinyin ).

The Hong Kong Economic Journal was founded by Lam Shan-muk ( 林山木 ) ( brother-in-law of Felix Lok Ying-kwan ( 駱應鈞 pinyin: Luò YìngJūn )), commonly known by his pen name 林行止 ( Lam Hang Chi ), who first worked as a data collector for Hong Kong Ming Pao during the 1960s and later as an assistant editor for the evening version of Ming Pao -- and Law Chi-Ping ( 羅治平 pinyin: Luó ZhìPíng ) -- who withdrew his shares later.

In Ireland's County Limerick, near the River Shannon, there is a quiet little suburb by the name of Garryowen, which means `` Garden of Owen ''.

Boun My -- the name means one who has a boun, a celebration, and is therefore lucky -- was born in Savannakhet, the Border of Paradise.

Aristotle, whose name means " the best purpose ," was born in Stageira, Chalcidice, in 384 BC, about east of modern-day Thessaloniki.

Hesychius connects the name Apollo with the Doric απέλλα ( apella ), which means " assembly ", so that Apollo would be the god of political life, and he also gives the explanation σηκός ( sekos ), " fold ", in which case Apollo would be the god of flocks and herds.

The name comes from earlier Afrikaans and means " earth pig " or " ground pig " ( aarde earth / ground, varken pig ), because of its burrowing habits ( similar origin to the name groundhog ).

Its name means " earth wolf " in the Afrikaans / Dutch language.

The name " Yu-lin " means " feathers and forests ", referring to the numerous light-footed soldiers represented by these faint stars.

The name " Turkey " ( Türkiye ) means " land of the Turks " and was never used as a name of Anatolia specifically.

His real name was Muhammad bin Da ' ud Chaghri, and for his military prowess, personal valour, and fighting skills he obtained the surname Alp Arslan, which means " Heroic Lion " in Turkish.

They named the element " astatine ", a name coming from the great instability of the synthesized matter ( the source Greek word αστατος ( astatos ) means " unstable ").

The name atom comes from the Greek ἄτομος ( atomos, " indivisible ") from ἀ-( a -, " not ") and τέμνω ( temnō, " I cut "), which means uncuttable, or indivisible, something that cannot be divided further.

' Compositae ', an older but still valid name, means composite and refers to the characteristic inflorescence, a special type of pseudanthium found in only a few other angiosperm families.

However Abdul is a common Arabic prefix meaning " Servant of the " and " Al " is Arabic for " the ", and if " hazra " means " he prohibited ", " he fenced in " or " Great Lord ", then the name would mean " Servant of the Prohibited ", " Servant of the Fenced in ", or " Servant of the Great Lord " which would make sense considering his role, even if it is not a proper Arabic name.

The name Ardipithecus ramidus stems mostly from the Afar language, in which Ardi means " ground / floor " ( borrowed from the Semitic root in either Amharic or Arabic ) and ramid means " root ".

The name probably means " she who ( comes ) at dusk ," which would identify Aphrodite in her personification as the evening star, a significant parallel she shares with Mesopotamian Ishtar.

His name "" means " painless, without sorrow " in Sanskrit ( the a privativum and śoka " pain, distress ").

Their name derives from the Spanish el lagarto, which means " the lizard ".

According to Asinius Quadratus ( quoted in the mid-6th century by Byzantine historian Agathias ) their name means " all men ".

Their most widely known ethnonym is derived from the word ainu, which means " human " ( particularly as opposed to kamui, divine beings ), basically neither ethnicity nor the name of a race, in the Hokkaidō dialects of the Ainu language ; Emishi ( Ebisu ) and Ezo ( Yezo ) ( both ) are Japanese terms, which are believed to derive from another word for " human ", which otherwise survived in Sakhalin Ainu as enciw or enju.

The name means " red-beard " ( literally, " bronze-beard ") in Latin.

In Arabic, the name ' Abd Allah ' means " servant of Allah ".