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My Chinese name in Kanji is 王元劭 (Wang Yuan Shao). I've heard there are many
different readings I can use for each kanji, am I allowed to use whichever
reading I like? Also, apparently the character 劭 is a hyogai Kanji, which
means I can't use it.
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Can I use my Chinese name and if so, how do I say it?
The way I usually see foreign names written in Newspapers etc is that Kanjis
that are not hyougai are used, with the original pronunciation transliterated
as furigana, and instead of the hyougai kanji, katakana is used. An example is
the Go player 李世乭, where 乭 isn't used in Japanese. The way his name is usually
written is thus 李｛イ｝世｛セ｝ドル
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We are supposed to call your name おう・げんしょう unless you challenge it. If you
want to be called differently, go ahead and offer it. In that case, you'd use
katakana like ワン・ユァンシャオ.

p.s. I'm Japanese but I haven't heard that one cannot use hyogai kanji.
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