Editing Pen name (section)

==Eastern literature==
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===Hong Kong===
[[Wuxia]] novelist [[Louis Cha]] uses the pen name Gum Yoong (金庸) by taking apart the components of the Chinese character in his given name (鏞) from his birth name ''Cha Leung-yung'' (查良鏞).

===India===
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In Indian languages, writers may put a pen name at the end of their names, like [[Ramdhari Singh Dinkar]]. Some writers, like [[Firaq Gorakhpuri]], wrote only under a pen name.

In early Indian literature, authors considered the use of names egotistical. Because names were avoided, it is difficult to trace the authorship of many earlier literary works from India. Later writers adopted the practice of using the name of their deity of worship or Guru's name as their pen name. In this case, typically the pen name would be included at the end of the prose or poetry.

Composers of Indian classical music used pen names in compositions to assert authorship, including [[Sadarang]], Gunarang ([[Fayyaz Ahmed Khan]]), Ada Rang (court musician of [[Muhammad Shah]]), Sabrang ([[Bade Ghulam Ali Khan]]), and Ramrang ([[Ramashreya Jha]]). Other compositions are apocryphally ascribed to composers with their pen names.

===Japan===
Japanese poets who write [[haiku]] often use a ''[[Art name|haigō]]'' (俳号). The haiku poet [[Matsuo Bashō]] had used two other haigō before he became fond of a banana plant (''bashō'') that had been given to him by a disciple and started using it as his pen name at the age of 36.

Similar to a pen name, [[Japanese art]]ists usually have a ''gō'' or [[art-name]], which might change a number of times during their career. In some cases, artists adopted different ''gō'' at different stages of their career, usually to mark significant changes in their life. One of the most extreme examples of this is [[Hokusai]], who in the period 1798 to 1806 alone used no fewer than six. [[Mangaka|Manga artist]] Ogure Ito uses the pen name [[Oh! great]] because his real name Ogure Ito is roughly how the Japanese pronounce "oh great".

===Korea===
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===Persian and Urdu poetry===
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:''Note: [[List of Urdu language poets]] provides pen names for a range of [[Urdu]] poets.''
A ''shâ'er'' ([[Persian language|Persian]] from Arabic, for poet) (a [[poet]] who writes ''[[Sher (poem)|she'r]]s'' in [[Urdu]] or [[Persian language|Persian]]) almost always has a "takhallus", a pen name, traditionally placed at the end of the name (often marked by a graphical sign {{char|&nbsp;{{Nastaliq|ـؔ}}&nbsp;}} placed above it) when referring to the poet by his full name. For example, [[Hafez (poet)|Hafez]] is a pen name for ''Shams al-Din'', and thus the usual way to refer to him would be ''Shams al-Din Hafez'' or just ''Hafez''. ''Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan'' (his official name and title) is referred to as ''Mirza Asadullah Khan [[Ghalib]]'', or just ''Mirza Ghalib''.