Ki-jung

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Ki-jung
Hangul 기정
Hanja 基 正, 基 禎, 基 政, and others
Revised Romanization Gi-jeong
McCune–Reischauer Kijŏng
IPA [kid͡ʑʌŋ]

Ki-jung, also spelled Kee-chung, Ki-jeong, or Gi-jung, is a Korean unisex given name. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 68 hanja with the reading "ki" and 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. [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.

People with this name include:

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Cho Ki-Jung was a South Korean potter who was designated as living treasure by the Gwangju Metropolitan Government in 1986 for his achievement to revive Goryeo celadon.

Park Ki-Jung is a South Korean sprint canoer who competed in the early 1990s. At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, he was eliminated in the repechages of both the K-1 1000 m and the K-2 500 m events, and did not finish in the heats of the K-2 1000 m event.

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References

  1. ↑ "인명용 한자표" [Table of hanja for use in personal names](PDF) (in Korean). South Korea: Supreme Court. August 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 August 2017. Retrieved 18 September 2018.
  2. ↑ His given name is different than the one which is the topic of this article; it is pronounced [kid͡ʑuŋ] , with a closed rather than open-mid back unrounded vowel in the second syllable.
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