Generation name

Generation name
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

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.