佐佐木

One of Japan's most common surnames (top 15 nationally), written 佐々木 in Japan with the 々 iteration mark — Chinese reproduces this as 佐佐木. Famous bearers include the legendary swordsman Sasaki Kojiro (佐佐木小次郎), who lost his historic 1612 duel to Miyamoto Musashi.

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Pure semantic-import reading from Japanese — characters are pronounced with their Mandarin readings (zuǒ-zuǒ-mù), nothing like the Japanese "Sasaki." Standard practice for all Japanese names in Chinese.