to address sb directly by name; to address sb by name without using an honorific title (indicating familiarity or overfamiliarity)

zhí hū qí míng

zh+í·2nd toneh+ū·1st toneq+í·2nd tonem+íng·2nd tone

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Most Americans do not object to my calling them by their first names.

大多数美国人似乎不反对我直呼其名。