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According to this article and according to Meng's website, his name is written in Chinese as 陳一鳴 (which is 陈一鸣 in simplified characters).
This is pronounced Chen Yi-Ming in Mandarin. The name Chade-Meng Tan reverses the normal order of Chinese names by placing the family name (in this case Tan) at the end.
In some dialects other than Mandarin, the name Chen is pronounced Tan (see Chen (surname)), so it is no mystery where the "Tan" comes from.
What is a mystery, however, is where the "Chade" comes from. "Meng" himself says that his given name is Yi-Ming, using the Mandarin pronunciation, and gives no clue how Mandarin "Yi" has somehow morphed into "Chade". If he were, for example, to use the Teochew dialect pronunciation (which uses "Tan" for Mandarin "Chen"), the name would be "Tsek-Meng" and not "Chade-Meng".
Does anyone know the source of this "Chade" component of his name?
Also, how is "Chade" to be pronounced? Does it rhyme with "bad" or with "bade"? Is it one syllable or two?--Akhooha (talk) 20:44, 28 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]
