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Jae-wook
Hangul 재욱
Hanja 在 旭, 材 昱, and others
Revised Romanization Jae-uk
McCune–Reischauer Chae-uk

Jae-wook is a Korean masculine given name. Its meaning depends on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 20 hanja with the reading "jae" and 11 hanja with the reading "wook" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names. [1]

Hanja Korean language characters of Chinese origin

Hanja is the Korean name for Chinese characters. More specifically, it refers to those Chinese characters borrowed from Chinese and incorporated into the Korean language with Korean pronunciation. Hanja-mal or Hanja-eo refers to words that can be written with Hanja, and hanmun refers to Classical Chinese writing, although "Hanja" is sometimes used loosely to encompass these other concepts. Because Hanja never underwent major reform, they are almost entirely identical to traditional Chinese and kyūjitai characters, though the stroke orders for some characters are slightly different. For example, the characters 教 and 研 are written as 敎 and 硏. Only a small number of Hanja characters are modified or unique to Korean. By contrast, many of the Chinese characters currently in use in Japan and Mainland China have been simplified, and contain fewer strokes than the corresponding Hanja characters.

Jae is a single-syllable Korean given name, as well as element in two-syllable Korean given names. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it. There are twenty hanja with this reading on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names; common ones are listed in the table at right.

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References

  1. ↑ "인명용 한자표" [Table of hanja for use in personal names](PDF). Seoul: Supreme Court of the Republic of Korea. Retrieved 19 January 2016.
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