{"id":551,"date":"2006-04-04T10:35:05","date_gmt":"2006-04-04T10:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/04\/the-name-darren-in-chinese\/"},"modified":"2006-04-04T10:35:05","modified_gmt":"2006-04-04T10:35:05","slug":"the-name-darren-in-chinese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/04\/the-name-darren-in-chinese\/","title":{"rendered":"The name darren in chinese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking in my website stats this morning and came across the following search term key phrase used to find my site:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;the name darren in chinese&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now that&#8217;s interesting I thought to myself, somebody has actually found my site by entering the search term &#8220;the name darren in chinese&#8221; into a search engine, I wonder if I could find my site my doing the same thing I thought!<\/p>\n<p>So in the hope of finding my site with the same words I loaded up quite a few search engines and searched for a little while until I came across the search page I was looking for, it was the <a href=\"http:\/\/search.msn.com\/results.aspx?q=the+name+darren+in+chinese&#038;srch_type=0&#038;first=11\">second page in msn search<\/a> for the search term &#8220;the name darren in chinese&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ok I know had found what I was looking for but what about my name in chinese, how did it actually look like?<\/p>\n<p>In the hope of finding out my name in chinese just like that first person who had come to my site had, I\u00a0done another quick search and found <a href=\"http:\/\/chineseculture.about.com\/library\/name\/male\/blna_darren.htm\">this article<\/a>\u00a0which says that the Chinese name for Darren is:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/images\/2006\/04\/darien.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m not sure if this is correct or not because the actual name of the image is &#8220;darien.gif&#8221; and not &#8220;darren.gif&#8221; plus if you go to <a href=\"http:\/\/chineseculture.about.com\/library\/name\/male\/blna_darien.htm\">this page<\/a> which is for the name darien you get the same image, I&#8217;m guessing that this has something to do with that they are probably both pronounced the same in Chinese or that the name Darren dosent actualy exsist in the chinese language.<\/p>\n<p>Also it seems that other pages give me different results depending whether or not I want it letter by letter or just the phonetic way of saying it:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lechinois.com\/prenom\/nomgif\/darren.gif\">Link 1<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.formosa-translation.com\/chinese\/d\/zd016.html\">Link 2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m now wondering which one is the correct one, probably all of them, but I cant be for sure so if anybody out there would like to explain I would be very grateful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking in my website stats this morning and came across the following search term key phrase used to find my site: &#8220;the name darren in chinese&#8221; 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