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Generation name

Generation name
Chinese name
Chinese字輩 or 班次
Hanyu Pinyinzìbèi or bāncì
Jyutpingbaan1 ci3
Hokkien POJchū-pòe or pan-chhù
Korean name
Hangul돌림자 or 항렬자
Hanja돌림字 or 行列字
Revised Romanizationdollimja, hangnyeolja
McCune–Reischauertollimcha, hangnyŏlcha

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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اسم الجيل Arabic Nom de génération French 輩行字 Japanese 항렬 Korean Пайхан Russian Tên thế hệ VI 行辈 Chinese

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