Li is Webster's pinyin, because it is easy to make mistakes in the translation of names, and now the current pinyin Li is widely used in mainland names.
Lee is an inherent surname abroad, so if a surname Li writes his English surname as Lee, foreigners may mistakenly think that you have foreign nationality. This is even more important when writing resumes, because the treatment of China employees and foreign employees in foreign companies is different. If the company wants to recruit a China person, but after reading your resume, it is mistaken that you are a foreigner, then you may miss this opportunity in vain.
In foreign countries, remember, especially in the west, never use Li. This is the true usage of Li's surname abroad.
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Recently, researchers from University College London (UCL) conducted a survey of 32 million British users who used Twitter in Weibo, and found the most popular surnames in the country and their distribution. Among them, the top ten surnames are Smith, Jones, Williams, Brown, Taylor, Davis, Wilson, Evans, Thomas and Johnson.
According to the latest statistics of USCB, the top ten surnames in the United States are Smith, Johnson, Williams, Brown, Jones, Miller, Davis, Garcia, Rodriguez and Wilson.
According to experts' estimation, there are as many as 6.5438+0.5 million surnames in English-speaking countries. Professor Zhou Haizhong, a famous scholar in China, pointed out in his paper on English names published in 1992 that there are about 3,000 common English surnames.
The top ten are Smith, Jones, Williams, Brown, Davis, Johnson, Anderson, Taylor, Thomas and Evans. Its population accounts for about half of the English population. According to a recent survey, the top ten British surnames are still in the same order.
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British surname? Baidu baike