You name it, They got it

When Phantom meets Tears, you can be sure something vivid will happen. Tiffany Tan reports.

How can a person stand out in a country of 1.35 billion? One safe, inexpensive and relatively stress-free way is to choose an unusual English name.

At least 795 people share Zhang Chaoyu's name, according to the online name database Idtag.cn. But how many of them are also called Lavendery? Probably no one but the Beijing high school student, who wanted a "more graceful-sounding" version of "lavender", the English equivalent of her Chinese nickname.