Seong (Korean given name)
Seong (Korean: 성), also spelled Song or Sung, is an uncommon Korean family name, a single-syllable Korean given name, as well as a common element in two-syllable Korean given names. The meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it.
| Seong | |
| Hangul | 성 |
|---|---|
| Hanja | |
| Revised Romanization | Seong |
| McCune–Reischauer | Sŏng |
Hanja
[edit]As of December 2018[update], regulations of the Supreme Court of Korea permit the following 24 hanja with the reading Seong, plus six variant forms, to be registered for use in given names.[1]
Ten characters from the table of basic hanja for educational use:
- 姓 (성씨 성; seongssi seong): "family name"
- 性 (성품 성; seongpum seong): "character", "personality"
- 成 (이룰 성; irul seong): "accomplish"
- 城 (재 성; jae seong): "castle"
- 誠 (정성 성; jeongseong seong): "sincere"
- 盛 (성할 성; seonghal seong): "abundant"
- 省 (살필 성; salpil seong): "to observe"
- 聖 (성인 성; seong-in seong): "sage"
- 聲 (소리 성; sori seong): "voice"
- 星 (별 성; byeol seong): "star"
Fourteen characters from the table of additional hanja for name use:
- 珹 (옥 이름 성; ok ireum seong): name of a kind of jade
- 娍 (아름다울 성; areumdaul seong): "beautiful"
- 瑆 (옥빛 성; okbit seong): "brightness of jade"
- 惺 (깨달을 성; ggaedareul seong): "to realise"
- 醒 (깰 성; ggael seong): "to awaken"
- 宬 (서고 성; seogo seong): "library"
- 猩 (성성이 성; seongseong-i seong): "orangutan"
- 筬 (바디 성; badi seong): "reed"
- 腥 (비릴 성; biril seong): "rotting meat"
- 貹 (재물 성; jaemul seong): "property", "valuables"
- 胜 (비릴 성; biril seong): "victory"
- 晟 (밝을 성; balgeul seong): "bright"
- 𦖤: "sharp hearing"[d]
- 騂 (붉은말 성; bulgeun mal seong): "red horse"
People
[edit]People with the monosyllabic given name Seong include:
- Chŏng Sŏng (fl. 11th century), Goryeo military commander
- Jin Xing (김성; Gim Seong; born 1967), Chinese ballet dancer of Korean descent
As name element
[edit]Many names starting with this element have been popular names for newborn baby boys in earlier decades, according to South Korean government data:[2][3]
- 1940: Sung-ki (9th place)
- 1950: Sung-soo (3rd place) and Sung-ho (6th place)
- 1960: Sung-ho (1st place) and Sung-soo (7th place)
- 1970: Sung-ho (2nd place), Sung-jin (3rd place), Sung-hoon (5th place), and Sung-min (8th place)
- 1980: Sung-min (2nd place) and Sung-hoon (6th place)
- 1990: Sung-min (3rd place) and Sung-hyun (4th place)
Other names containing beginning with this element include:
Other names ending with this element include:
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]- ^ a b c d e This variant uses 丁 in place of the hook stroke used in the standard form.
- ^ a b c d This is officially listed as a separate character in Schedule 1 of the regulations, rather than a variant form in Schedule 2 of the regulations.
- ^ This variant form is not yet encoded in Unicode.
- ^ This character is part of the CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B block and might not be displayed or printed properly. It consists of the ear radical and a character meaning "star" (⿱耳星).
References
[edit]- ^ 가족관계의 등록 등에 관한 규칙 [Regulations on Registration of Family Relations] (Regulation 2954) (in Korean). 29 January 2021.
- ^ "한국인이 가장 줗아하는 이름은 무엇일까?". babyname.co.kr. Retrieved 2012-11-09.
- ^ "한국인이 가장 줗아하는 이름은 무엇일까?". babyname.co.kr. Retrieved 2012-11-09.
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