How to Deal with Guests with Character Names (not alphabets)

Michelle266
Level 3
Vancouver, Canada

How to Deal with Guests with Character Names (not alphabets)

Hello guys! Many of you have perhaps already known about this method, but I'd just like to share just in case anyone misses this.

 

If you receive booking requests/enquiry from guests with character names (Korean/Chinese/Japanese/etc), you may try this method, it always works for me.

 

Go to Google Translate

Set up detect language for the left box, ignore the right box

Copy paste the characters to the left box

Google will detect which language it is (it's not 100% accurate but somewhere around 90% for me!)

Right below the box there is the latinized version of the name

You can also click on the bottom left 'speaker' button to know how the name is pronounced

 

E.g.:

庄小威

Google Translate will tell you it's a Chinese character and will tell you that the latinised name of this person is Zhuang Xiaowei.

 

Hope it helps!

1 Reply 1
Clare0
Level 10
Templeton, CA

@Michelle266 Cool! Hadn't thought of that before, thanks!

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