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wrong name Li Mei Chan #60032




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hashihime



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 2:26 pm Reply with quote
On her agency home page, her name is romanized as Chiang Li-Mei (i.e., Li-Mei Chiang).

Her birth name is Satomi Toyohara, but she is half-Taiwanese and changed her stage name to the Chinese-sounding チャン・リーメイ (chyan riimei) in 2005. That "chyan" could be the common Cantonese surname Chan (i.e., Chen in Mandarin), but apparently is really Chiang (i.e., "Jiang" in mainland transliteration).

Some info from ja.wikipedia.
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dormcat
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 11:05 pm Reply with quote
Fixed.

hashihime wrote:
That "chyan" could be the common Cantonese surname Chan (i.e., Chen in Mandarin), but apparently is really Chiang (i.e., "Jiang" in mainland transliteration).

Since she's half Taiwanese I'd say "Chiang" is most likely a Wade-Giles romanization. It could be either Chiāng (江, 姜) or Chiǎng (蔣).
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