Chinese practice of siblings' names sharing a common syllable
Generation name
Chinese name
Chinese
字輩 or 班次
Hanyu Pinyin
zìbèi or bāncì
Jyutping
baan1 ci3
Hokkien POJ
chū-pòe or pan-chhù
Korean name
Hangul
돌림자 or 항렬자
Hanja
돌림字 or 行列字
Revised Romanization
dollimja, hangnyeolja
McCune–Reischauer
tollimcha, hangnyŏlcha
For the social sciences concept, see List of named generations.
Generation name (variously zibei or banci in Chinese; tự bối, ban thứ or tên thế hệ in Vietnamese; hangnyeolja in Korea) is one of the characters in a traditional Chinese, Vietnamese and Korean given name, and is so called because each member of a generation (i.e. siblings and paternal cousins of the same generation) share that character.
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