In Korea, it is common for siblings and cousins of the same generation to have one hanja syllable in common among all of their names; this is known as "dollimja". Russians have no equivalent practice, although they do have patronyms which the Koryo-saram have for the most part adopted. Therefore, Koryo-saram does not use generation names. They use, depending on religion, either a name from Sviatcy or a name arbitrarily chosen from the hanja character used in Korea to form names.