Working with a compound surname
A user likes 欧阳 and wants to understand how a four-character full name is divided.
THE SITUATION
A naive parser might label 欧 as the surname and 阳瑾言 as the given name. The correct boundary for this candidate is 欧阳 / 瑾言.
THE SHORTLIST
A REASONED CHOICE
欧阳瑾言
Ōuyáng Jǐnyán
preciousness in words
欧阳瑾言 pairs a two-character surname with a two-character given name. 瑾 contributes a jade metaphor and 言 points to words. This is an editorial pairing; a speaker should assess its actual everyday feel.
What remains to verify
Ask a Mandarin speaker to pronounce the full name and confirm that they recognize 欧阳 as the surname.
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