Chinese characters used in naming are rare and difficult to recognize.
Among the current problems with personal names in our country, the problem of a large number of duplicate names due to improper naming is the most eye-catching. In order not to have the same name as others, or to express their individuality, some people like to use uncommon words that most people do not recognize when naming, thus going to the other extreme. This practice of naming with uncommon words is also a bad naming habit and should be avoided. The so-called rare characters, also called difficult characters, refer to characters with extremely low writing efficiency, which are not academically recognized by anyone. When naming, we pursue novelty, novelty, and uniqueness, and thus use uncommon characters. Examples of this are common in ancient and modern times. Especially in the past 10 years, more and more people have chosen more diverse names in pursuit of personalization, resulting in the frequent occurrence of uncommon words. For example, among the more than 400 freshmen admitted to Chengdu Paulongshu Elementary School in the fall, it was found that as many as 18 had uncommon characters in their names. , as many as forty and fifty-one. Names such as Chen Yi, Du Fu, Wang Sheng, Lin Qixi, Lin Zha, Zhou Zhao, etc., as well as the words Weng and Le, make many people unable to recognize them after seeing them.
In order to type these names on the computer, the school had to hire computer experts for help. Many class teachers were afraid of pronouncing the wrong names during roll call, so they had to look up the dictionary a few days in advance to familiarize themselves with these uncommon names. A class teacher said that many students’ names were searched in Cihai and Ciyuan, and they even had to ask for the Kangxi Dictionary to find them. A reporter finally copied 20 rare words from it, wrote them on a piece of paper, and asked two professional teachers from the Chinese Department of the university and a high school Chinese teacher who graduated from the Chinese Department for advice. Without being allowed to look up the dictionary, one of them The professor of Chinese language and literature only recognized n of them correctly, the associate professor of ancient Chinese recognized 17, and the middle school teacher only recognized 9. Surprisingly, no one could recognize them all correctly. Another middle school Chinese teacher said that every time when new students are studying, he will find five or six names in the class that use uncommon characters. He doesn't know how to call them. They can't find them in dictionaries or type them into the computer. It forced him to sometimes wish that these classmates would change their names and come back to study divination. One of the female classmates has a ‘. "frequency", she said that her father worked hard to look it up with the "Kangxi Dictionary". From elementary school to junior high school, her classmates or teachers who met her for the first time always pronounced this word as "frequency". "Kay" brought her a lot of trouble. As a last resort, she planned to change the word to the homonym "Yi". Regarding the uncommon characters in the names of the above-mentioned students, in order to avoid embarrassment during roll call, some teachers usually deliberately do not call the name and only ask "" at the end. "Which classmate's name was not called?" Ask the students to stand up and say their names by themselves, and avoid the embarrassment. If you encounter a narrow-minded teacher, you may make things difficult for the student intentionally or unintentionally, and the student does not know it yet. Of course, this is not the fault of the students. The fault is that the parents regard the teachers as old scholars who study ancient characters. This inadvertently makes the children lose at the starting line. The parents are to blame for the naming. Unprecedented words can cause trouble, and their influence may be unpredictable at any time.
There are two brothers named Ma in Shenyang. The elder brother is called Ma Neng (d's restraint (bioo)), and the younger brother is called Ma Fangpu (. (ch sounds like g), the names of the two brothers together have 12 horses. In this regard, the younger brother Ma Jinsu said that the communicative function of the two brothers has also lost the meaning of introducing themselves and shaping their image through their names. The above may not be expected when naming, so some people have to use a dictionary when naming, or deliberately choose variant characters, or deliberately choose uncommon characters in synonyms, which not only makes it more difficult for children to recognize their own names from an early age. It also makes it difficult for him to integrate into society when he grows up, and also creates troubles for social information management. For this reason, we often hear that people around us are unable to get their documents in time because of their unfamiliar names and are delayed for a while. [For example, in recent years, hundreds of thousands of people across the country have encountered trouble when applying for second-generation ID cards. The reason is because there are uncommon characters in their names, and some people have encountered problems when applying for overseas passports. In the same situation, if the relevant departments encounter characters that cannot be recognized by the computer when making passports, they used to be able to handwrite the name of the holder on the passport.
However, when the holder uses this kind of passport, it may be regarded as a fake certificate by the border inspection department because according to international practice, all passports should be machine-printed. In order to find out how many rare characters are used in the names of our citizens When applying for second-generation ID cards, the Ministry of Public Security spent about two years organizing public security agencies across the country to collect rare characters involving names and addresses. It was found that there were more than 30,000. Later, after searching and comparing the Founder font files of Peking University, Yes, there are 4,600 rare characters that are not included in the font file. These rare characters were not a serious problem when applying for the first-generation ID cards, because at that time ID cards were not all produced through computer systems. If you encounter rare characters in your name, you can print them or handwrite them. Nowadays, computer network certification is implemented, and all personal name information must be transmitted over the Internet. Once you encounter characters that are not in the font file, there will be problems in the production of ID cards, and citizens will not be able to get their ID cards. In order not to have too much impact on the ID card replacement work, the Ministry of Public Security had to organize manpower to encode and create characters for these rare characters, make special software, and install it on the computers of local ID card production centers and offices, so that those who originally had problems with rare characters could Those who have not received an ID card will receive a second-generation ID card.
From the above examples, it is not difficult to see that naming with uncommon words is indeed a very troublesome matter, which is inconvenient for both others and ourselves. Of course, it brings not only a problem in the production and issuance of ID cards, but more importantly, it is no longer a personal problem at this time, but a social problem: it adds more management tasks to the management department. The cost also delays the timely collection of relevant documents. This trouble could obviously have been avoided if uncommon words had not been used in the name. What's more, the management department of the Ministry of Public Security has currently dealt with those who have reached the age to apply for ID cards, and has not dealt with the uncommon characters in the names of teenagers under this age. As the ages of these children gradually increase, some will reach the age required by the state to apply for identity cards at any time. In other words, the management department of the Ministry of Public Security will encounter the problem of uncommon characters in names at any time, and must study countermeasures at any time. Because of this, in order to change from passive to proactive, the management department of the Ministry of Public Security began to organize manpower to study countermeasures to solve the naming problem, and drew on the experience of Hong Kong, Taiwan and other countries in the world to formulate our country's name regulations to standardize and regulate citizens' naming. limit. Once such regulations are promulgated, it means that the use of rare words will be restricted. Of course, it would be a bit biased to put too much emphasis on the increased social management costs of naming with uncommon words and thus to impose restrictions. This is not only because, as mentioned above, the problem of computers processing rare characters has been solved, but if the name registration method we currently use is slightly modified, there will be almost no technical problems. What's more, in our Hong Kong, the rules on names have already been relaxed. You can choose your name at will and change your name freely. The specific method is that no matter it is your first time to change your name or you request a name change, even if you request a name change a day, even if the name you choose has dozens of characters, you do not need any reason and will not be rejected as long as you are willing. The only stipulation is that only the first 12 characters of the new name on the identity certificate are registered, and a handling fee of HKD 600 is required. But our current regulations are much more cumbersome. Not only do they limit the number of characters in a name to no more than 6, they also do not allow non-standard Chinese characters or characters and letters other than Chinese characters. Name changes must also pass strict review and must comply with the "People's Republic of China". **Articles 17 and 18 of the Household Registration Regulations of the People's Republic of China require that persons under the age of 18 shall apply to the household registration authority in person or by their parents or adopters, and persons over the age of 18 shall apply in person to the household registration authority. Change registration. Before registering, you must first submit an application to the police station where your household registration is located, and fully explain the reasons for the name change.
When the police station deems it necessary, it will also ask the applicant for proof of relevant changes or corrections. The communication function of words is impaired, and the meaning of introducing oneself and shaping one's image through names is lost. The above may not have been expected when the name was first chosen. As a result, when naming, some people have to use a dictionary to choose a name, or deliberately use variant characters, or deliberately choose rare characters in synonyms. This not only makes it more difficult for the child to recognize his own name from an early age, but also makes it difficult for him to integrate into people when he grows up. It brings difficulties and creates troubles for social information management and so on.
For this reason, we often hear that people around us are unable to get their IDs in time and have been delayed in their work because their names are unfamiliar. In recent years, hundreds of thousands of people across the country have been applying for second-generation ID cards. They got into trouble because their names contained uncommon characters. Others encountered the same situation when applying for overseas passports. If the relevant departments encounter characters that cannot be recognized by computers when making passports, they used to be able to hand-write the holder's name on the passport. However, when the holder uses this kind of passport, it may be regarded as a fake certificate by the border inspection department because according to international practice, all passports should be machine-printed. In order to find out how many rare characters are used in the names of Chinese citizens, the Ministry of Public Security spent about two years organizing public security agencies across the country to collect rare characters involving names and addresses when applying for second-generation ID cards. It was found that there are More than 30,000. Later, after checking and comparing the Peking University Founder font file, it was confirmed that there were 460 () rare characters that were not in the font file. These rare characters were not a serious problem when applying for the first-generation ID cards, because at that time ID cards were not all produced through computer systems. If you encounter rare characters in your name, you can print them or handwrite them. Nowadays, computer network certification is implemented, and all personal name information must be transmitted over the Internet. Once you encounter characters that are not in the font file, there will be problems in the production of ID cards, and citizens will not be able to get their ID cards. In order not to have too much impact on the ID card replacement work, the Ministry of Public Security had to organize manpower to encode and create characters for these rare characters, make special software, and install it on the computers of certificate-making centers and institutes in various places. Those who have not received an ID card will receive a second-generation ID card. From the above examples, it is not difficult to see that naming with uncommon characters is indeed a very troublesome matter, which is inconvenient for both others and ourselves.