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> Winston Churchill would be represented by hanzi that would be transliterated Wensuteng Chuerqilu.

If we actually used Chinese characters, we would write Churchill with meaningful hanzi and not strictly transliterate. Though there'd of course be variations as there are variations in spelling.

The only Chinese I know is through Japanese, but I imagine Churchill would look something like 教丘

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