Talk:Lí (surname 黎)

Folk Etymology
I am removing the following unsourced paragraph from the article: "From the character of Chinese, 黎 originated from the villager who grew water type rice grains. As seen in the character, there is a grain like character on the upper left (禾) and the cutting tool for the grains on the upper right (勹). The middle character is the hat or cap (八) that the villager used to shade away from the hot sun while working in the grain fields. The lower character is water (水) representing the water rice grain field. In ancient times, what the people's livelihood were became their surnames or family names."

This sounds like a lot of folk etymology given to a lot of other Chinese characters that are simply untrue. According to both zhongwen.com and chineseetymology.org, the character is a phono-semantic compound, with 利 as the phonetic (lì) and an abbreviated 黍 as the semantic element. &mdash;Umofomia (talk) 06:45, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

Merger and naming discussions
See Talk:Li (surname) where a second discussion has been opened on this topic of names, articles, how many to have, how to organize them. The older discussion is still going on at Talk:Li (surname meaning "profit")  -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 00:07, 4 July 2013 (UTC)

Requested move 23 October 2016

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The result of the move request was: Moved. To Lí (surname 黎) (non-admin closure)  ©   Tb hotch ™ (en-2.5). 10:35, 1 November 2016 (UTC)

Lí (surname) → Li (surname 黎) – All the names should be kept in the same way so it's easier to find when searching. Opacitatic (talk) 01:35, 23 October 2016 (UTC) Comment The fact that we are having this discussion illustrates the danger of using Chinese chracters in titles - not to mention it also violates WP:UE Timmyshin (talk) 22:50, 26 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Support the tone marker could stay though. In ictu oculi (talk) 06:57, 23 October 2016 (UTC)
 * Support per In ictu oculi. There is nothing really overly WP:PRECISE about the tone marker, also characters are a good idea for WP:CONSISTENCY. If you look at Category:Chinese-language surnames, you see some titles that are just Latin, some that are just Latin with tone marker, and some that are Latin with character disambiguator; in other words, it's visually just a mess to look at the category. As far as building an encyclopedia goes, there should be a least some consideration into making categories more aesthetically pleasing.--Prisencolin (talk) 23:00, 27 October 2016 (UTC)


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