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[-] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 29 points 2 years ago

In South Korea it's actually against the law for children to be given names longer than 5 syllables.

[-] drolex@sopuli.xyz 18 points 2 years ago

Fuck the government, I'll call my child Haneulbyeollimgureumhaennimbodasarangseureouri if I want!

[-] LemmysMum@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Han gonna grow up OK. Even if a little resentful.

[-] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

하늘별림구름핸님보다사랑스러우리

[more lovely than] sky star cloud god?

[-] Risk@feddit.uk 9 points 2 years ago
[-] CheeseQueen 2 points 2 years ago

I'm currently rereading the stormlight archive atm lol

[-] tiredofsametab@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago

I don't know about legality, but most forms online in Japan accept 4 characters at most for family name; the vast majority of people have two characters with one and three being less common. Okinawa, I think has the highest instance of 4-character surnames, but I may be wrong on that.

[-] whaleross@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

I was living in Seoul many (many) moons ago. I remember all forms having three character spaces each for first and last names. Fun times squeezing in a standard western ten-twenty latin character names. Even transliterated to hangul my name wouldn't fit. It was always a small thrill if the person behind the counter would look terrified and accept it without question or get pissy and refuse it without mercy.

[-] lugal@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago
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