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{{Short description|Chinese practice of siblings' names sharing a common syllable}} {{For|the social sciences concept|Generation#List of named generations{{!}}List of named generations}} {{redirects here|Banci|the Indonesian gender identity|waria (person){{!}}waria}} {{Chinese |hide = no |c = 字輩 or 班次 |p = zìbèi or bāncì |j = baan1 ci3 |poj = chū-pòe or pan-chhù |hangul = 돌림자 or 항렬자 |hanja = 돌림字 or 行列字 |rr = dollimja, hangnyeolja |mr = 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 given name|Chinese]], [[Vietnamese name|Vietnamese]] and [[Korean name|Korean]] given name, and is so called because each member of a generation (i.e. [[sibling]]s and paternal [[cousin]]s of the same generation) share that character.
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