How do you introduce this in English?" The family sign."

First of all, what LZ means by "family sign" is actually taken from the family motto. Many historical families have a family motto, which serves as a unique foundation for each family and is used to educate future generations.

The kanji characters in the family motto are used sequentially in the names of each generation.

Like LZ said, your father's and your share of the word tiles together is "civilization", which should be one of the words in the family motto.

So, the advice is as follows:

In China, many families have their own belief, usually a long sentence, to lead their children. is a long sentence, to lead their children.

And with a certain order, each generation will take one character from the sentence as a common part of their names.

In a certain order, each generation will take one character from the sentence as a common part of their names.

For example, my family got "Wen" for my father and his cousins when "Ming" for me and my cousins.

For example, the word my family gave my father and his siblings was "Wen", while the word given to me and my cousins was "Ming".

These two characters should be a phrase in my family belief with the meaning of culture and civilization.

****** would be more helpful for others to understand if, for example, the entire sentence of your family creed were available.