Two-year-old Trevor Pang Hyin Hing’s Chinese name shares the same second character as that of his younger brother Tyler Pang Hyin-En, who is six months old.
There is a long history behind what might seem to be just a simple way for two siblings to have similar-sounding names.
The poems could have eight, 16 or 24 characters, depending on the family, and each character in the poem would become a generation name that is typically used as the middle character.For their father, Mr Terence Pang, 38, whose Chinese name is Sze King, his generation name is the Chinese character shi.
As part of the course, she asks students to find out about their own names, in English and Chinese, and those of their parents and grandparents. Today, with young parents in Singapore being mainly English-speaking, traditions like generation names may feel old-fashioned and would not be something they identify with, he added.
“Now in English everyone is just uncle or auntie – strangers are also uncle and auntie. With generation names, you will know better the relationship between you and your relative, it becomes more personal,” he said. “My name Sze King made me the butt of all jokes – like ‘If you’re sea king, then is your brother land king or sky king?’ I was a bit embarrassed,” said Mr Pang, who is Shopee’s chief operating officer.
“But I think it’s admirable for those who bother to continue, because it shows a sense of identity, which names are always connected to.”
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