301 Daily Chinese conversational sentences, No.16--ni jiao shenme mingzi? What a Chinese name looks like? #chinese #dailychinese #speakchinese #chinesespeaking video like → https://youtu.be/hDkWTk84XsA Normally, a given name can be 1 or 2 characters. Most surnames are 1 characters, like黄，陈，林, while there are also a few 2-characters-surnames, such as 欧阳，上官. Therefore, a Chinese name usually is 2 characters or 3 characters, occasionally 4 characters. It’s not common to see a name longer than 4 characters. When we call someone’s name, usually we call two characters in their names. For example, 李娟，this 2 characters name, we will just say the whole name. 黄雪梨，3 characters name, we usually just call the given name 雪梨. 上官婉儿，4 characters name, you can call this person 上官 or 婉儿。You can call the whole name, but it sounds a little indifferent, except the name originally is 2 characters.