Indications
And Differences

Gender
People usually can tell a person's sex from his or her name. This is because there is a tradition of using different words in men's and women's names. Words in men's names often show masculine characteristics while words used in women's can be grouped in the following eight categories:

Seniority
A person's name sometimes indicate his relationship with other members of the family or clan, such as grandparents, parents, spouse, siblings, uncles, aunts and cousins Sometimes people use their mother's family name instead of their father's surname, however this is very very rare.One special example is The Kong clan of Confucius, which has kept an unbroken genealogical tree or Confucius's direct descendants for 77 generations. For families using one-character given names, seniority or relationship is sometimes indicated by radicals of the characters. Seniority among brothers and sisters is sometimes indicated by a character in their given names. Some given names indicate seniority simply by including an ordinal number. There are five types of given names which indicate seniority:

1. Among brothers or sisters in separate orders
2. Among both Brothers and sisters in the same order
3. Among cousins of the same sex
4. Among cousins of both sexes
5. Among sworn friends or members of a society