李さん

English translation: Mr./Ms. Lee (if Korean, use Li if Chinese)

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Japanese term or phrase:	李さん
English translation:	Mr./Ms. Lee (if Korean, use Li if Chinese)
Entered by:	conejo

22:48 May 30, 2007

Japanese to English translations [PRO]
Names (personal, company)

Japanese term or phrase: 李さん

I am not sure if this is a surname or a first name... Does anyone know what the reading would be, and if it's a man or a woman (if it's a first name, that is)?

Thanks in advance.

conejo KudoZ activity Questions: 724 (1 open) (24 closed without grading) Answers: 286 United States
Local time: 11:29

Lee-san

Explanation:
リーさん, the most likely possibility, a Korean surname.

NIYONIYO・国籍と民族のはざ間で・在日韓国人二世
【LEE HEEJAさん】大阪市生野区生まれの在日韓国人2世。 .... 会田－李さん自身は、自分の生まれた環境とか、そのころ取っていた名前とかについて、どのように思っ ...
www.niyoniyo.net/vol17/hitolibrary/heeja.htm -

教えて！goo 韓国人の名前をローマ字にした場合。。。
しかし，そのご友人が先祖代々韓国人であれば，必ず漢字表記があるはずです。「他の大勢のイさんと比べて珍しい」というのは，李さんではなくて異さんとか伊さんだ， ...
oshiete1.goo.ne.jp/kotaeru.php3?q=1375761 -

米下院で偽証した自称従軍慰安婦、李容洙(Lee Yong-soo)の証言
日本軍によって‘トシコ’と名付けられた李さんは、性行為を拒否して電気拷問を受け、韓国語を話す度にひどく殴られた、と語った。李さんは「終戦後に家に帰ると、 ...
toron.pepper.jp/jp/syndrome/ianfu/ianfu/leeyongsoo2.html - 19k -

Selected response from:

KathyT
Australia
Local time: 02:29

Grading comment

Thanks, everybody.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

Summary of answers provided

2 +8

Lee-san

KathyT

A family name. Mr. or Mrs. or Miss Lee

bishan sharma

Answers

9 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +8

Lee-san

KathyT
Australia
Local time: 02:29
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 55

Grading comment

Thanks, everybody.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)

agree

Nobuo Kameyama

9 mins

-> Thank you, Kameyama-san.

agree

sigmalanguage: Can also be a Chinese name. I personally know a woman with this name. And yes, she calls herself Lee.//I just remembered that a boy (probably from Korea) was called "Ee-kun", which confirms what's written in your second example.

26 mins

-> Yes, you're right. Thanks, sigmalanguage.

agree

casey

1 hr

-> Thanks, Casey.

agree

TimG

2 hrs

-> Thanks, Tim.

agree

Tokyo_Moscow: most Chinese spell themselves as "Li", and Koreans as "Lee"

3 hrs

-> Thank you, Tokyo_Moscow.

agree

cinefil: http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/李さん一家

8 hrs

-> Thanks, cinefil-san, and for the reference.

agree

Minoru Kuwahara: i agree that is a korean or chinese surname. -

11 hrs

-> Thank you, Kuwahara-san.

agree

Naikei Wong: or "Li" if that's for a person from Hong Kong or mainland China... Hi Kathy, hope you're well and bouncing...;-P

18 hrs

-> Thanks, Naikei! I'm well, how's y'self?

1 day 10 hrs confidence:

A family name. Mr. or Mrs. or Miss Lee

Explanation:
I just want to say to Kathy that for a simple reading of the name where was the necessity to give all those explanations.

bishan sharma
Local time: 21:59
Native speaker of:

Japanese,

English

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