Posted by Ruitao on July 03, 2003 at 09:33:14:
In Reply to: chinese surname posted by confused on June 07, 2003 at 00:56:10:
Soto is more or less made up of the Japanese characters "����", which, when alternated into Kanji/Traditional Chinese, is "�O", meaning "outside". I do not believe that this is a valid Chinese surname given its ambiguity.