Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg just announced that he and his wife Priscilla Chan would be expecting their third child. Remember having read that once he requested China's president Xi Jinping to pick a Chinese name for his child. Countries in Eastern Asia followed the Chinese name system. There may be over 700 different Chinese family names but one cannot simply be given the family name or surname. Equivalent to the last name in a Western name, the family name is inherited. The first or the given name comes after the family name and it can be of one or two characters. One of these characters in this personal name may be shared by members of a generation and is known as the generational names. The generational name has been worked out long in advance historically in a poem listing the names and allows one to trace which generation one belongs to. All the children in a family therefore have the same surname as their father, may or may not have the same generational name and a personal name consisting of one or two characters, one of which could be the generational name. The Chinese president, I remember, didn't oblige the Facebook boss.
Can you determine the family name, generational name and personal name of the children of Singapore's first prime minister, the late Lee Kuan Yee?
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