of course, chinese people know that, and it is talk about people who have their own outstanding characters such as 曹操（cao2 cao1),刘备（liu2 bei4),诸葛亮（zhu1 ge3 liang4). and people like to use some idioms like 说曹操曹操就到（shuo1 cao2 cao1 cao2 cao1 jiu4 dao4),三个臭皮匠赛过诸葛亮（san1 ge4 chou4 pi2 jiang4 sai4 guo4 zhu1 ge3 liang4)