Chinese naming is pretty straightforward: family name, then one or two characters chosen nearly at random. That's the short version. Long version: There are a lot of family names (several hundred according to The Other Wiki), but a handful dominate: Zhang, Li, Wang, a couple dozen others. These are usually one syllable, though two syllable surnames do exist. Perhaps the most famous one is Zhuge, as in Zhuge Liang (and Sima, as in his rival Sima Yi) from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.