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Mi-rae is a Korean given name,in modern times used as a feminine name. The meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name,however the most common way of writing this name in hanja is 未來,meaning "future". There are 33 hanja with the reading "mi" and 9 hanja with the reading "rae" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names.
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- 1 2 金文昌 [Kim Mun-chang] (1991). "고유어식 사람 이름에 대하여" [Regarding indigenous-word-style personal names]. 《새국어생활》. 1 (1). Retrieved 2014-06-04.
- ↑ "다래". Naver Dictionary. Retrieved 2020-09-01.
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