Millennials Millennials Millennials, also known as Generation Y or Gen Y, are the generational demographic cohort following Generation X and preceding Generation Z. There are no precise dates for when this cohort starts or ends; demographers and researchers typically use the early 1980s as starting birth years and the mid-1990s to early 2000s as ending birth years. Millennials are sometimes referred to as "echo boomers" due to a major surge in birth rates in the 1980s and 1990s, and because millennials are often the children of the baby boomers. Although millennial characteristics vary by region, depending on social and economic conditions,
Go-on the name "Shōtoku" (in "go-on") is pronounced as such in some derived place-names, but "Seitoku" (in "kan-on") in others. Both are possible today, depending on what is being referred to. However, some "go-on" sounds are now lost. Even though monolingual Japanese dictionaries list a complete inventory of "go-on" for all characters, some were actually reconstructed using the "fanqie" method or were inferred to be the same as their modern homophones. "Go-on" readings were formerly referred to as . The term 'go-on' was first introduced in the mid-Heian, likely by people who wished to promote "kan-on" readings. During the Tang dynasty,