based on gender stereotypes, with boys acquiring 'masculine' names implying strength or courage while girls receive 'feminine' names concerning beauty or flowers. Since doubled characters are considered diminutives in Chinese, many girls also receive names including a doubled pair of characters or two characters with identical pronunciation. A famous exception to this generally feminine practice is Yo-Yo Ma. Apart from generational names, siblings' names are frequently related in other ways as well. For example, one son's name may include a character meaning "Sun" ( or ) while his sister would have the character for "Moon" () or a character including the moon radical. It is also common to split modern Chinese wordswhich now usually consist of two characters of similar meaning both to each other and the full wordamong a pair of children, such as Jiankang (, "healthy") appearing in the children's names as -jian (, "strong") and -kang (, "healthy"). Chinese personal names can also reflect periods of history. For example, many Chinese born during the Cultural Revolution have "revolutionary names" such as Qiangguo (, lit. "Strong Country" or "Strengthening the Country") or Dongfeng (, lit. "Eastern Wind"). In Taiwan, it was formerly common to incorporate one of the four characters of the name "Republic of China" (, Zhōnghuá Mínguó) into masculine names. Patriotic names remain common but are becoming less popular960,000 Chinese are currently named Jianguo (, lit. "Building the Country") but only a few thousand more are now being added each year. Within families, adults rarely refer to each other by personal names. Adult relatives and children referring to adults generally use a family title such as "Big Sister", "Second Sister", "Third Sister", and so on. It is considered rude for a child to refer to parents by their given name, and this taboo is extended to all adult relatives. When speaking of non-family social acquaintances, people are generally referred to by a titlefor example, "Mister Zhang", "Mother Li" or "Chu's Wife". Personal names are used when referring to adult friends or to children and are typically spoken completely; if the given name is two characters long, it is almost never truncated. Another common way to reference someone in a friendly way is to call them "Old" (, Lǎo) or "Little" (, xiǎo) along with their surname. Many people have a non-Chinese name (typically English) in addition to their Chinese names. For example, the Taiwanese politician Soong