Bae | |
Hangul | 배 |
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Hanja | |
Revised Romanization | Bae |
McCune–Reischauer | Pae |
Bae,also spelled Bai,Pae or Pay,is a Korean family name. The South Korean census of 2015 found 400,641 people by this surname,or less than 1% of the population. [1] In a study by the National Institute of the Korean Language based on 2007 application data for South Korean passports,it was found that 96.8% of people with this family name spelled it in Latin letters as Bae. Rarer alternative spellings (the remaining 3.2%) included Pae,Bai,Pai,Pay,and Bea. [2]
There are two different ways to write the name in hanja:the most common (裵),and an alternative (裴) which lacks the "stem" (亠,Radical 8) at the top. The most common character is also used to write the Chinese surname Pei,which is also the origin of the Vietnamese surname Bùi.
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Choi is a Korean family surname. As of the South Korean census of 2015,there were around 2.3 million people by this name in South Korea or roughly 4.7% of the population. In English-speaking countries,it is most often anglicized as Choi,and sometimes also Chey,Choe or Chwe. Ethnic Koreans in the former USSR prefer the form Tsoi (Tsoy) especially as a transcription of the Cyrillic Цой.
Yoo or Yu,or sometimes Ryu or Ryoo,is the English transcription of several Korean surnames written as 유or 류in hangul. As of 2000,roughly a million people are surnamed Yoo in South Korea,making up approximately 2% of the population. Of those,the most common is Ryu,with more than six hundred thousand holders,whereas Yoo accounts for about one hundred thousand.
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Jung is a Latin alphabet rendition of the Korean family name "정",also often spelled Jeong,Chung,Joung or Jong. As of the South Korean census of 2015,there were 2,407,601 people by this name in South Korea or 4.84% of the population. The Korean family name "정" is mainly derived from three homophonous hanja. 鄭 (2,151,879),丁 (243,803) and 程 (11,683). The rest of the homophonous hanjas include:政 (139),桯 (41),定 (29),正 (22) and 情 (5).
Jeon (전),also often spelled Jun,Chun or Chon,is a common Korean family name. As of the South Korean census of 2000,there were 687,867 people with this name in South Korea. It can be written with three different hanja,each with different meanings and indicating different lineages.
Seong (Korean: 성),also spelled Song or Sung,is an uncommon Korean family name,a single-syllable Korean given name,as well as a common element in two-syllable Korean given names. The meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it.
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Hyun,also spelled Hyeon or Hyon,Hyoun,is a Korean surname,a single-syllable Korean given name,and an element in many two-syllable Korean given names. As given name meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it. There are 42 hanja with the reading "hyun" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names.
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