Dae-won (name)
| Dae-won | |
| Hangul | 대원 |
|---|---|
| Hanja | |
| Revised Romanization | Dae-won |
| McCune–Reischauer | Tae-won |
Dae-won, also spelled Dai-won or Tae-won, is a Korean masculine given name. Its meaning depends on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name.
Hanja
There are 17 hanja with the reading "dae" and 35 hanja with the reading "won" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names.[1] Ways of writing this name in hanja include:
- 大元 (클 대 keul dae, 으뜸 원 euddeum won): "great origin". These same characters are also used to write the Japanese names Oomoto, Masamoto, and Hiromoto.[2]
- 大源 (클 대 keul dae, 근원 원): "great spring".
People
- Daewon (born Moon Jae-hyeon, 1936), South Korean Zen master
- Han Dayuan (Korean name Han Dae-won, born 1960), Chinese law professor of Korean descent
- Dai-won Moon (born 1968), South Korean-born Mexican taekwondo master
- Kim C (born Kim Dae-won, 1971), South Korean singer
- Daewon Song (born 1975), South Korean-born American skateboarder
- Im Dae-won (born 1976), South Korean Greco-Roman wrestler.
- Ha Dae-won (born 1985), South Korean football player
- Bae Dae-won (born 1988), South Korean football player
- Tochinowaka Michihiro (born Lee Dae-won, 1988), Japanese sumo wrestler of Korean descent
See also
References
- ^ "인명용 한자표" [Table of hanja for use in personal names] (PDF). Seoul: Supreme Court of the Republic of Korea. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
- ^ Breen, Jim (2011). Japanese Names Dictionary. Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
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