Chinese people have middle names?

Question

Do they have middle names? I always thought it was their family name(last) and their name(first).

Answer 1

yes they do.

One of my best friend's family all have middle names.

Answer 2

i think they do sometimes

but japanese people dont have middle names

Answer 3

Some do, some don't.

Answer 4

sometimes they do.  my sister's is huang li min

and mine is huang li xin (<-- "xin" pronounced as sin)

Answer 5

yes they sometimes do have middle names

my best friends is

min hua chan

Answer 6

No. we don't.

For example，my name is "pan haihang", not"pan hai hang".

"hai" is the 1st characer of my first name, not a middle name.

Answer 7

I don't think what people are calling middle names really are that. Chinese people often have 3 character full names, with the first being their surname. The last 2 characters both make up their first name, which is why that is how they are addressed. No one would really break those two characters up and only address one. So, in truth, there is no middle name in the way it is used in the West.  

Answer 8

Correction jxdy11

Some, infact, many Chinese have a 2-4 characters surname but that's rare. hmmm actually 2 characters are still pretty common in the minority groups. Remember, China was formed over 5000 years ago. It's made of many different cultures like Tibetans, Mongolians, Russians, Indians, Khazastanis etc. So there are tons of those "weird" Chinese surnames floating around :) The royal family back in Qing Dynasty had a 4 character surname.They were called Ai-Xin-Jiao-Luo (爱-新-觉-罗... the descendants converted that full surname to just Ai 爱).

nah Chinese don't really have a "middle" name but the character in the middle of the name is often considered "middle name" in western cultures.