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I wonder how my Chinese name would be read in (Sino-)Vietnamese and Korean. (Though I can guess the Korean reading based on the Chinese and Japanes

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As luck would have it, both characters in your given name show up in common nouns, so it's not too hard to track down the non-Chinese pronunciations.

Thanks!

Trần is the single most popular Vietnamese name

I thought that distinction went to Nguyễn? ...looks... Hm, Wikipedia says (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tr%E1%BA%A7n) that Nguyễn leads by quite a bit (38.4% to Trần's 11%).

Incidentally, my dentist here in Germany used to share a practice with a Vietnamese lady named Trần.