Why does yao Ming use his 1st name on his jersey. I asked a Chinese guy if it was because it was actually his surname like in Japanese culture, but he said they don't do it that way. My husband and I just can't fid someone with a plausible answer.
2007-03-06 18:10:23 · 12 answers · asked by lilly j 4 in Sports ➔ Basketball
I think that it's all about global marketing. Yao Ming, the best-known athlete from a country of 1.3 billion people and the top vote-getter among N.B.A. All-Stars. Yao was regarded as a phenomenon, an athletic symbol of China's rise as a world power, an unstoppable force of marketing in China and a basketball bridge to the United States.
Take care.
2007-03-06 18:18:55 · answer #1 · answered by Mary R 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Chinese name usually combined by 3 words.
The first is Surname and both the second & third word are first name.
However, it can also be combined by 2 words.
The first is Surname and the second word is first name.
Yao Ming is the second case. Yao is surname and Ming is first name
2007-03-06 18:16:19 · answer #2 · answered by Notorious Guy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yao is the surname. Chinese uses surname first and then given name while Western uses Given name first.
2007-03-07 00:07:20 · answer #3 · answered by Sunny 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Michael Yao Ming.
2007-03-06 18:13:15 · answer #4 · answered by roy_marzoed 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Ming. chinese language continuously have their final call first to honor their kin and complete prolonged kin for that remember. consequently Yao interior the jersey call and Yao Ming commonly called. Ming Yao is his call being called in English intonations.
2016-11-23 12:38:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I thought Ming was his last name but I guess it is his first name. Yao is just a surname that he uses.
2007-03-06 18:13:54 · answer #6 · answered by Josh D 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I believe that his jersey in China said Yao on it and at his request, the NBA okayed it! In other countries and other sports, people can put even nicknames on their jerseys! There is one other player with the same case, Nene.. with that accent mark on the e! His name is so long and confusing, the NBA okayed it too.
2007-03-06 19:56:30 · answer #7 · answered by maestrosantana 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ming is his first name...
Yao is his surname....so the jersey is correct.
2007-03-06 18:12:25 · answer #8 · answered by Powered by Rice 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yao is his surname.
2007-03-06 18:14:31 · answer #9 · answered by greymatter 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in the Western world your first name is important to recognized you but in Japan if you are the son or the daughter of the father you will be know as the child of the father.that why .
2007-03-06 18:15:30 · answer #10 · answered by i,m here if you need to talk. 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋