Jeong-hyo

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Jeong-hyo
Hangul 정효
Hanja 貞 孝, 正 孝, 定 孝, and others
Revised Romanization Jeong-hyo
McCune–Reischauer Chǒnghyo

Jeong-hyo, also spelled Jung-hyo, is a Korean unisex given name. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name.

Korean name Naming customs of Korean culture

A Korean name consists of a family name followed by a given name, as used by the Korean people in both South Korea and North Korea. In the Korean language, ireum or seongmyeong usually refers to the family name (seong) and given name together.

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.

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Hanja

There are 75 hanja with the reading "jeong" and 24 hanja with the reading "hyo" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names. [1] Some ways of writing this name in hanja include:

Jung, also spelled Jeong or Chong, is a single-syllable Korean given name, as well as an element in many two-syllable Korean given names. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it. There are 75 hanja with the reading "jung" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names, one of the most numerous among all Korean language syllables; they are listed in the table at right.

People

People with this name include:

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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 8 October 2015.
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