Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei (IMAGE)
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The Pinyin transliteration can create ambiguity, losing important cultural context and making it harder to infer details like gender. Take the name of Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei as an example. His given name is composed of two Chinese characters—two identical characters. When romanized, his name may seem straightforward, but it actually represents multiple Chinese characters with the same Pinyin spelling, "wei." This overlap makes it difficult to know which characters are intended, especially when context is missing.
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