How do you write Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Donald Trump's names in Chinese?<\/p>\n
As it turns out, the answer may vary depending on whether the person you ask is from mainland China (ZH-CN), Hong Kong (ZH-HK), Macau (ZH-MO), Malaysia\/Singapore (ZH-SG), or Taiwan (ZH-TW).
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\nAccording to Wikipedia, the following are the preferred (or most widely used) transcriptions for Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in each of these countries\/regions (all pronunciations in MSM):<\/p>\n
Barack Obama<\/b>:
\nZH-CN B\u00e8il\u0101k\u00e8 \u00c0ob\u0101m\u01ce \u8d1d\u62c9\u514b\u00b7\u5965\u5df4\u9a6c
\nZH-HK B\u0101l\u0101k\u00e8 \u00c0ob\u0101m\u01ce \u5df4\u62c9\u514b\u00b7\u5967\u5df4\u99ac
\nZH-MO B\u0101l\u0101k\u00e8 \u00c0ob\u0101m\u01ce \u5df4\u62c9\u514b\u00b7\u5967\u5df4\u99ac
\nZH-SG B\u00e8il\u0101k\u00e8 \u00c0ob\u0101m\u01ce \u8d1d\u62c9\u514b\u00b7\u5965\u5df4\u9a6c
\nZH-TW B\u0101l\u0101k\u00e8 \u014cub\u0101m\u01ce \u5df4\u62c9\u514b\u00b7\u6b50\u5df4\u99ac<\/p>\n
Hillary Clinton<\/b>:
\nZH-CN X\u012bl\u0101l\u01d0 K\u00e8l\u00ednd\u00f9n \u5e0c\u62c9\u91cc\u00b7\u514b\u6797\u987f
\nZH-HK X\u012bl\u0101l\u00ec K\u00e8l\u00ednd\u00f9n \u5e0c\u62c9\u8389\u00b7\u514b\u6797\u9813
\nZH-MO X\u012bl\u0101l\u01d0 K\u00e8l\u00ednd\u00f9n \u5e0c\u62c9\u91cc\u00b7\u514b\u6797\u9813
\nZH-SG X\u012bl\u0101l\u00ec K\u00e8l\u00ednd\u00f9n \u5e0c\u62c9\u8389\u00b7\u514b\u6797\u987f
\nZH-TW X\u012bl\u0101ru\u01d0 K\u0113l\u00ednd\u00f9n \u5e0c\u62c9\u854a\u00b7\u67ef\u6797\u9813<\/p>\n
Donald Trump<\/b>:
\nZH-CN T\u00e1ngn\u00e0d\u00e9 T\u00e8l\u01cengp\u01d4\u00a0 \u5510\u7eb3\u5fb7\u00b7\u7279\u6717\u666e
\nZH-HK D\u0101ngl\u00e1o Chu\u0101np\u01d4 \u7576\u52de\u00b7\u5ddd\u666e
\nZH-MO D\u0101ngl\u00e1o T\u00e8l\u01cengp\u01d4 \u7576\u52de\u00b7\u7279\u6717\u666e
\nZH-SG T\u00e1ngn\u00e0d\u00e9 Chu\u0101np\u01d4 \u5510\u7eb3\u5fb7\u00b7\u5ddd\u666e
\nZH-TW T\u00e1ngn\u00e0 Chu\u0101np\u01d4 \u5510\u7d0d\u00b7\u5ddd\u666e<\/p>\n
Cf. \"Homa Obama<\/a>\" (9\/22\/14) and \"Sea-watcher<\/a>\" (9\/6\/15),<\/p>\n [Thanks to Matthew Trueman]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How do you write Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Donald Trump's names in Chinese? As it turns out, the answer may vary depending on whether the person you ask is from mainland China (ZH-CN), Hong Kong (ZH-HK), Macau (ZH-MO), Malaysia\/Singapore (ZH-SG), or Taiwan (ZH-TW).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,189],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-names","category-transcription"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28578"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28678,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28578\/revisions\/28678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}