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This from the Daily Beast:

"There's a Chinese tradition that all the siblings from one generation share one character in their names in common, or one syllable," the celebrated cellist explained in an interview for my new PBS documentary series, Faces of America. "And so for my generation, there was Yo"-which means "friendly" in Chinese.

"My sister's name is Ma Yo Chang. ... Either my parents had a sick sense of humor or they-because they did know that Yo-Yo was the name of a toy-either they had no more ideas, and they just said okay, 'Yo-Yo.' But that ended up being my name."

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