Seong-ja

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Seong-ja
Hangul 성자
Hanja 成 子, 聖 子, and others
Revised Romanization Seong-ja
McCune–Reischauer Sŏngja

Seong-ja, also spelled Sung-ja, is a Korean feminine given name. The meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. [1] There are 27 hanja with the reading "seong" and 28 hanja with the reading "ja" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names. [2] Typically, "ja" is written with the hanja meaning "child" (子). Names ending with this hanja, such as Young-ja and Jeong-ja, were popular when Korea was under Japanese rule, but declined in popularity afterwards. [3] The hanja used to write the name Seong-ja also correspond to a number of different Japanese given names; for example, both 成 子 and 聖 子 can be read as the name Seiko. [4]

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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References

  1. ↑ "성자, 이름검색". erumy.com. Retrieved 2013-11-21.
  2. ↑ "인명용 한자표" [Table of hanja for use in personal names](PDF). South Korea: Supreme Court. Retrieved 2013-10-17.
  3. ↑ "가장 흔한 이름은? 男 영수→민준ㆍ女 영자→서연" [The most popular names? Boys: Young-su → Min-jun, girls: Young-ja → Seo-yeon]. Korea Economic Daily . 2007-03-20. Retrieved 2012-12-04.
  4. ↑ Breen, Jim (2011). Japanese Names Dictionary. Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group. Archived from the original on 2012-12-05. Retrieved 2012-12-02.
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