Jung-ah

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Jung-ah
Hangul 정아
Hanja 貞 兒, 貞 雅, 晶 雅, and others
Revised Romanization Jeong-a
McCune–Reischauer Chŏng'a

Jung-ah, also spelled Jeong-ah, is a Korean feminine given name. The meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 75 hanja with the reading "jung" and 29 hanja with the reading "ah" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used 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.

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.

Sung Jung-A is a South Korean former basketball player who won the silver medal in the women's basketball tournament at the 1984 Summer Olympics.

Seok Jung-Ah is a retired South Korean volleyball player. She was part of the South Korea women's national volleyball team.

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  1. ↑ "인명용 한자표" [Table of hanja for use in personal names](PDF). South Korea: Supreme Court. Retrieved 2013-10-17.
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