Curiously, though, Venus does not even have a proper Chinese name--only a nearly meaningless phonetic transliteration from English.

CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia

Therefore, I opted not to apply academic standards of transliteration, which have a way of making Arabic names even more distant and unattainable to a Western reader.

NPR: Historian Robert Satloff

The group's research turned up numerous cases of transliteration fraud.

ECONOMIST: Computing: What's in a name? | The

If someone fears that the Romanised version of his name has been flagged, he can choose a new (but linguistically correct) transliteration, and then establish that spelling gradually by using it on low-level documents such as a gym membership card or a lease agreement.

ECONOMIST: Computing: What's in a name? | The