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32: 3218: 108: 3230: 411:, courtesy names served a formal and respectful purpose. In traditional Chinese society, using someone’s given name in adulthood was considered disrespectful among peers, making courtesy names essential for formal communication and writing. 458:. Thus, the given name was reserved for oneself and one's elders, whereas the courtesy name would be used by adults of the same generation to refer to one another on formal occasions or in writing. Another translation of 477:. Courtesy names were often relative to the meaning of the person's given name, the relationship could be synonyms, relative affairs, or rarely but sometimes antonym. For example, 3080: 538:). It was also common to construct a courtesy name by using as the first character one which expresses the bearer's birth order among male siblings in his family. Thus 657:
dynasty asserted that whereas the purpose of a given name was to distinguish one person from another, a courtesy name should express the bearer's moral integrity.
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A son at twenty is capped, and receives his appellation....When a daughter is promised in marriage, she assumes the hair-pin, and receives her appellation.
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Courtesy names often reflect the meaning of the given name or use homophonic characters, and were typically disyllabic after the
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is "style name", but this translation has been criticised as misleading, because it could imply an official or legal title.
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A Good Son is Sad If He Hears the Name of His Father: The Tabooing of Names in China as a Way of Implementing Social Values
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indicates that he was the second son born into his family. The characters commonly used are
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were also referred to by their courtesy name. The practice was also adopted by some
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A courtesy name is a name traditionally given to Chinese men at the age of 20
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were one syllable, and from the Qin to the 20th century they were mostly
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Another way to form a courtesy name is to use the homophonic character
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