HSK and your name

[Seanver]

It may be a lame question, but I'm taking it this year and reading the instructions it said that you have to write (I assume on the exam sheet) your name in both your native form and CHINESE, although it gives no further information.

So would someone who's taken an HSK exam before be able to tell me if it's necessary to write your name in Chinese? Since I have no "official" Chinese name so to speak, if that was the case, would it be enough to search for the usual transliterations, etc? Or is it thought for Chinese people with a Chinese name and they just translated the instrutions without specifying it?

[fanglu]

I'd never really thought about having an 'official' Chinese name before. You can write whatever you want, it will get written on your result form though. I have no idea what would happen if you left it blank.

[Seanver]

As for "official", just a manner of speech. So I could just write anything I consider to sound like my name or mean something similar to my name? Because I have quite an unsual Spanish surname for which I don't think there is any commonly (or uncommonly) used transliteration around so I would have to come up with one myself

[Lyons]

When I took the HSK last year, I left the 'Chinese Name' section blank. No problems with the application, exam or certificate.

I do have a Chinese name, which a teacher gave me years ago. I think one would have to be very confident in their Chinese skills to choose their own name. However, my Chinese name is hardly 'official' and I don't really use it.

[trevelyan]

Put down the name of your favourite Hong Kong film star. If you do badly you can always claim it was them taking the test, using your name as cover.

[atitarev]

I used my Chinese (安德利) and English (or romanised) names. Both appeared on the certificate. Can't see any problem with that. If you don't need, just leave the Chinese name blank.