Cover news reporter Zhang Jie
On the evening of July 25, Beijing time, the men's weightlifting 67 kg final of the Tokyo Olympic Games began to compete. China's Chen Lijun, with his absolute strength in the deadlift competition, completed a stunning reversal, successfully defeated Colombian Javier with an advantage of 1 kg, and won another gold medal for the Chinese team. At the same time that Chen Lijun quickly became a hot person, the pronunciation of his surname also formed a wave of discussion. How should the Olympic champion's name be pronounced? Many people are confused. In the subtitles given in the TV broadcast screen, Chen Lijun's name is written as chenlijun, but when CCTV explains the game, it is pronounced chen (shen four sounds), which of these two pronunciations is correct?
When the word 谌 is used as a surname, it has two pronunciations, which can be pronounced as (chen) two sounds, and can also be pronounced as (shen) four sounds. The famous badminton player and Olympic champion Chen Long is pronounced as (chen two sounds). As for the pronunciation of Chen Lijun's "Chen", Chen Lijun himself had previously confirmed that this surname was pronounced as (shen sisheng) in their family, not as chen. Therefore, the pronunciation and spelling of his surname on the subtitles broadcast at the scene of the Olympic Games is wrong, and the CCTV commentary is correct in pronouncing Chen Lijun's surname.
"The same word, the same way of writing, the same use as a surname, but the pronunciation is different, this situation is not an isolated case." Huang Anjing, editor-in-chief of "Biting Text Chewing Words", known as the "language woodpecker", said in a telephone interview with a cover news reporter on the morning of July 26, "For example, Ji Xiaolan's Ji is pronounced more than ji (four sounds), but there are also places where people read ji (three sounds) when they use this word as a surname. A few years ago, when the TV series "Iron Tooth Copper Tooth Ji Xiaolan" was broadcast, some people discussed this issue. For another example, when the word 'single' is used as a surname, most of them read shan, but there are also cases where it does the surname to read dan. When you encounter someone whose last name is dan, don't arbitrarily think that people must be mispronounced. Characters such as 谌, 紀, and shan as surnames, in different places, pronounced differently, belong to the historical geographical isolation of the same surname and the differentiation of different places. Like Chen Lijun is from Hunan, Chen Long is from Hubei. It is also very normal for their surnames to use the same word, pronounced differently. ”
Huang Anjing also reminded that China has a long history, a vast geography, and the evolution of surnames is very complicated, so we must study and understand with a broad mind, and when we encounter situations that we feel doubtful, we should not make a fuss. "There are different pronunciations for the same word used as a surname, there is no question of who is right and who is wrong, but to follow the principle of 'name from the master' and respect the pronunciation of the user himself." Because the language used by the speaker is the language of life. ”
Author: Cover News
Source: People's Daily client