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  2. Generation name - Wikipedia

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    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.

  3. List of common Chinese surnames - Wikipedia

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    A 2010 study by Baiju Shah & al data-mined the Registered Persons Database of Canadian health card recipients in the province of Ontario for a particularly Chinese-Canadian name list. Ignoring potentially non-Chinese spellings such as Lee (49,898 total), [24]: Table 1 they found that the most common Chinese names in Ontario were: [24]

  4. List of Chinese era names - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the Chinese era names used by the various dynasties and regimes in the history of China, sorted by monarch. The English renditions of the era names in this list are based on the Hanyu Pinyin system. However, some academic works utilize the Wade–Giles romanization.

  5. Chinese name - Wikipedia

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    Chinese names are personal names used by individuals from Greater China and other parts of the Sinophone world. Sometimes the same set of Chinese characters could be chosen as a Chinese name, a Hong Kong name, a Japanese name, a Korean name, a Malaysian Chinese name, or a Vietnamese name, but they would be spelled differently due to their varying historical pronunciation of Chinese characters.

  6. 110 Chinese boy names for babies, from popular to rare - AOL

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    Chinese baby boy names offer a lot of options for parents, from popular to rare. Check out this list for unique, cool and special ideas for Chinese boy names. 110 Chinese boy names for babies ...

  7. Courtesy name - Wikipedia

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    A courtesy name is a name traditionally given to Chinese men at the age of 20 sui, marking their coming of age. It was sometimes given to women, usually upon marriage. [1] The practice is no longer common in modern Chinese society. According to the Book of Rites, after a man reached adulthood, it was disrespectful for others of the same ...

  8. 110 Chinese girl baby names to inspire you - AOL

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    Chinese girl names for babies. Popular Chinese baby girl names in 2024 according to LingoAce.com, a language learning site that also tracks baby names: Aihan. Beihe. Beiye. Caiji. Chanchan ...

  9. Chinese Indonesian surname - Wikipedia

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    In rare instances, only one of the Chinese given names is included in an individual's Indonesian-sounding name. Christiandy Sanjaya, for example, only integrated San from his Chinese name Bong Hon San ( Chinese: 黄汉山) into his Indonesian name. He also added the Sanskrit-derived suffix - jaya, which meant "victory".