Editing Chinese name (section)

===Word order===
[[File:Sun Yat Sen Signature.png|thumb|The English signature of [[Sun Yat-sen]] abided the Chinese naming order]]
For mainland Chinese, Western publications usually preserve the Chinese naming order, with the family name first, followed by the given name. This presentation of Chinese-character names is similar to those of [[Korean names]]; it differs from the presentation of [[Japanese names]], which are usually reversed in English so they are family name last.{{sfnp|Power|2008|p=C4-2}} For people with just a single given name or with [[Chinese compound surnames|compound surnames]] and a single given name, the western name order may add to the complication of confusing the surname and the given name.<ref>{{cite book |last= Louie |first= Emma Woo |date= 9 March 2019|title= Chinese American Names: Tradition and Transition|publisher= McFarland |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=IGAClRACrsYC|isbn= 9780786438778}}</ref>

The word order of [[Hong Kong name]]s gets complicated when one has a legal English given name. For example, a person who has Kuo as his surname, Chi Yung as his Cantonese given name, and Peter as his legal English given name would have his name rendered as "KUO, Chi Yung Peter" on his [[Hong Kong identity card]], however, the position and the use of a [[comma]] might be varied as "KUO Chi Yung Peter" or "KUO Chi Yung, Peter" on court papers.<ref name="HKLR 383">Dataprep (HK) Ltd v. KUO Chi Yung Peter [1974], ''Hong Kong Law Reports'' 383.</ref> His name is much more likely to be printed as Peter Kuo Chi-yung (with a [[hyphen]]) or Peter Kuo on newspapers and academic journals.<ref name="HKLJ">{{cite journal|title=Transfers from the Labour Tribunal and Procedural Problems in the Supreme Court - Dataprep (H.K.) Ltd. v. Peter Kuo Chi-yung|journal=Hong Kong Law Journal |volume=5|date=1975}}</ref>