How to write your original (non-Chinese) and Chinese name, jointly

Question

What is the most appropriate way to write both your non-Chinese, as well as your Chinese name, in one text line combined, e.g. at the bottom or top of a document.

Clarification: by this, I mean that the document (e.g. a letter, a resume, or a report) is written by the person signing or 'heading' that document.

I am looking for the most appropriate answer, with regards to the "Chinese"-language context, disregarding that the document itself might not be Chinese.

Is it one of the following options, and if so; which one please:

"FIRST NAME" "LAST NAME" ‧ "CHINESE LAST NAME" "CHINESE FIRST NAME"

"FIRST NAME" "LAST NAME" · "CHINESE LAST NAME" "CHINESE FIRST NAME"

"FIRST NAME" "LAST NAME" • "CHINESE LAST NAME" "CHINESE FIRST NAME"

"FIRST NAME" "LAST NAME" ∙ "CHINESE LAST NAME" "CHINESE FIRST NAME"

The inter-punctuation characters used in the options above are:

‧ hyphenation point (HTML-code: ‧),

· interpunct (HTML-codes: · or ·),

• bullet (HTML-codes: • or •) and

∙ bullet operator (HTML-code: ∙)

respectively ... even though this Stack Exchange website doesn't seem to format the bullet operator in a very standard way/font-size.

Or is there any other punctuation which is more standardized? Perhaps even using simple brackets () (or is that not the "Chinese" way)? Or should one simply use the Chinese point: 。?

Also: should the punctuation marks or names receive a different font-size?

Answer 1

Your best source is 百度 百科 here's some examples of how they do it:

基努·里维斯（Keanu Reeves）

布兰妮·斯皮尔斯（Britney Spears）

奥兰多·布鲁姆（Orlando Bloom）

So the format here is: transliterated first name + · (interpunct code point U+00B7 · MIDDLE DOT) + transliterated surname + （ (General purpose (fullwidth East-Asian) / U+FF08 Fullwidth left parenthesis) + ） (General purpose (fullwidth East-Asian) / U+FF09 Fullwidth right parenthesis)

Also, you can see there is no space after the Chinese name and the left parenthesis.

Your name then would look something like this:

文森特·费尔海恩（Vincent Verheyen）

the reverse would also work for said purpose

Vincent Verheyen（文森特·费尔海恩）

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Out of curiosity, here's also an example of a famous westerner with a Chinese name - with his Chinese name and then western-name on a "single line"

大山（本名马克·亨利·罗斯韦尔，Mark Henry Rowswell）