Chinese Full Names

Covers over four million names

Names of real people

Includes pinyin, zhuyin fuhao and/or English

Overview

CJKI’s Database of Chinese Full Names (CFN) covers over four million Chinese full names. These are names of real people, not generated by algorithms. Phonological data such as pinyin or zhuyin are available, as well as English equivalents. In addition, the full names are segmented, making it explicit which part is the surname and which the given name.

Chinese Full Names

Practical Applications

CFN is used for identifying and processing Chinese names, and is useful in a variety of applications, including:

Segmentation and morphological analysis

Improving accuracy of machine translation

Immigration control systems

Anti-money laundering

Query processing by search engines

Named-entity recognition (NER)

Security applications

Related Resources

CNV

Chinese Personal Name Variants

Chinese personal names and their romanized variants

CEN

Chinese-English Personal Names

Chinese-English database of CJK and Western personal names

CJN

Chinese-Japanese Personal Names

Chinese-Japanese database of CJK and Western personal names