LV - Not Noly a Luxury in China I have a colleague whose last name is Lv which is a very common Chinese surname. We all called him 'LV'. One day, my foreign colleague Carl who has learned Chinese for a few month watched a picture and asked LV how to say it in Chinese. LV glanced at it and said 'Lv'. And wrote the Pinyin for him. 'What?' Carl asked with a surprised look on his face, 'Your name is same as donkey?'...... Then LV has asked us to call him Allen, his English name. In Chinese, the pronunciation of donkey is Lv that is same as Lv, a Chinese surname, apart from the tone. Thank you for your correction in advance.