Eun-jung
Appearance
Pronunciation | /ʊn.dʒʌŋ/ |
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Gender | Female |
Origin | |
Word/name | Korean |
Meaning | Different depending on Hanja |
Other names | |
Alternative spelling | Eun-jeong, Eun-jong, Un-jeong, Un-jong |
Eun-jung | |
Hangul | 은정 |
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Hanja | |
Revised Romanization | Eun-jeong |
McCune–Reischauer | Ŭnjŏng |
IPA | [ɯndzʌŋ] |
Eun-jung, also spelled Eun-jeong or Eun-jong, Un-jong, is a Korean feminine given name. The meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 30 hanja with the reading "eun"[1] and 84 hanja with the reading "jung"[2] on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names. It was the third-most common name for baby girls in South Korea in 1970, falling to sixth place in 1980.[3]
People
People with this name include:
- Entertainers
- Shin Eun-jung (born 1974), South Korean actress
- Han Eun-jung (born 1980), South Korean actress
- Kim Eun-jung (singer) (김은정, born 1987), South Korean singer, member of K-pop girl group Jewelry
- Hahm Eun-jung (born 1988), South Korean actress and singer, member of K-pop girl group T-ara
- Sportspeople
- Chang Eun-jung (born 1970), South Korean field hockey player
- Cho Eun-jung (born 1971), South Korean field hockey player
- Shim Eun-jung (born 1971), South Korean badminton player
- Lee Eun-jung (born 1981), South Korean long-distance runner
- Yi Eun-jung (born 1988), South Korean golfer
- Hong Un-jong (born 1989), North Korean artistic gymnast
- Kim Eun-jung (curler) (born 1990), South Korean curler
See also
- List of Korean given names
- People with the name 은중, which may also be spelled "Eun-jung" in English, but has a different hangul vowel in the second syllable:
- Kim Eun-jung (writer) (born 1972), South Korean female writer
- Kim Eun-jung (footballer) (born 1979), South Korean male footballer
References
- ^ 대법원 인명용 : 네이버 한자사전 "은"
- ^ 대법원 인명용 : 네이버 한자사전 "정"
- ^ "한국인이 가장 줗아하는 이름은 무엇일까?". babyname.co.kr. Retrieved 2012-11-09.