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by jimworm 997 days ago
> If you see a three-syllable Chinese name, you can be confident that the two-syllable name is the given name, and the one-syllable name is the family name.

Statistically speaking one could be fairly confident, but as a rule it is wrong due to the presence of compound surnames.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_compound_surname