I always think of her as Na Li

 

LeeNa.

No, seriously, at the US Open it's NA on top and then LI underneath, as they always go Given Name, Family Name on the scoreboards.

 

Na Li. Although I know I'm wrong.

 

Na Li as all other Chinese girls (Jie Zheng, Zi Yan, ....)

 

I've heard umpires refer to her as Li, so Na Li.

 

I say Na Li, since her given name is Na. Just randomly, I got taught how to write her name in Chinese characters today.

 

When I'm writing it down I always use the correct way, which is the traditional Chinese way - Li Na.

Sometimes I just say Na, 'cos that's her name.

Anyway, I love Li Na.

 

I either call her Na. OR Li Na. Never Na Li even though thats what I used to call her

 

Li Na, Zheng Jie , Shuai Peng

 

I always say her name in Chinese, so it's Li Na for me.

 

Li Na
coz i'm chinese:lol:

 

Li Na, It may be her family name and is said Li by umpires however should still come first.

Zheng Jie and Li Na is how I say it because that is the proper way to say it in her culture.

 

Li Na

 

Li Na as I speak Mandarin. It's just naturally how it should be said.

But I uaually like to put these names down in the western way because I think since they're translated into English, they should follow its rule, like Na Li, Jie Zheng, Yung-Jan Chan.

And an interesting thing I have to point out; we often call someone with one chinese character as her given name "their full name". For example, even if we are to show some sort of intamacy or familiarity, we say Li Na, Zheng Jie, instead of Na, Jie or so. It actually feels awkward in the language to just call that sole specific character. However, for people with two-character given names, we'd like to call them only their given names. We prefer saying Yung-Jan, Tian-Tian, Su-Wei...,yes, without the family names.

 

^Well it would be fine to compound it to say Na Na or Jie Jie

 

Na Na :yeah:

But Jie JIe

 

Most Hungarians use the given name-surname order when speak or write a given-is-first foreign language, and we write foreign names the original order in Hungarian (Justine Henin, Amelie Mauresmo, Li Na, etc).

So feel free to say Agnes Szavay.

 

:lol: Well, perhaps.

 

Yes, Sir Stefwhit.
In China, if your givename only has one character. We do usually compound that. Such as, Nana,Jiejie, Shuaishuai.
When I was a kid, my family called me Lu Lu, cause my name is Chen Lu. (When boys grow up, people don't do that anymore, cause it sounds childish)

 

Not reallySome words are awkward and illusional if you compound them.Never heared Zheng Jie and Peng Shuai are called "Jie Jie" and "Shuai Shuai"But Na Na is acceptable and good
BTW,Lu Lu sounds so adorable for megood for you

 

We call her Li Na. In Chinese we always put surname first.
The pronunciation of "Na Li" in Chinese is the same to a word "那里", which means "there".

 

Surprised that most people respond with the correct way of Li Na because on the boards, more often than not, most people seem to refer to her as Na Li. She even says it's no big deal so it really doesn't matter. I was mostly just curious as to how people would respond.

 

The funniest thing is that there might be millions of girls called Li Na in China:lol:You know,Na is a very common and cute girl's name,if not Li Na,then maybe Zhang Na,Lin Na,Liu Na,:lol:

 

Li Na. Na Li just doesn't sound right to me.

 

Li Na as i'm a Mandarin speaker. :lol:

 

While it is correctly Li Na, and if I spoke to her I would say that (and I did once), I love calling her Na here.

It's one of the many things about this board that are a custom and I won't change it because our customs are important.

 

OMG You are back.

 

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