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Chinese children are given by their parents a 奶名 nai',' ming ；'， "milk-name" by which they are designated in the family. These milk names are numberless. A common habit in the family is to give the new born children only a number for milk name, by which number the child is called four or five, if it is the fourth or fifth son in the family. The common forms for these arithmetical names are