Chae-won
Appearance
Pronunciation | /tʃæ.wən/ |
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Gender | Female |
Origin | |
Word/name | Korean |
Meaning | Different depending on Hanja |
Other names | |
Alternative spelling | Che-won, Cha-won |
Chae-won | |
Hangul | 채원 |
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Hanja | |
Revised Romanization | Chae-won |
McCune–Reischauer | Ch'aewŏn |
IPA | [tɕʰɛwʌn] |
Chae-won is a Korean feminine given name. The meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 4 hanja with the reading "chae" and 11 hanja with the reading "won" among the Basic Hanja for educational use,[1] and another 14 with the reading "chae" and 34 with the reading "won" in the Table of Hanja for Personal Name Use as of December 2018.[2] Chae-won was the seventh-most-popular name for newborn girls in South Korea in 2013.[3]
People
People with this name include:
- Kim Chae-won (writer) (born 1946), South Korean writer
- Lee Chae-won (born 1981), South Korean female cross-country skier
- Moon Chae-won (born 1986), South Korean actress
- Kim Chae-won (born 1997), South Korean singer, member of girl group April
- So Chae-won (born 1997), South Korean archer
- Kwon Chae-won (born 1999), stage name Eunchae, South Korean singer, member of girl group DIA
- Kim Chae-won (born 2000), South Korean singer, member of girl group Iz One
- Park Chae-won (born 2000), stage name Go Won, South Korean singer, member of girl group Loona
Fictional characters
Fictional characters with this name include:
- Min Chae-won, in 2013 South Korean television series A Hundred Year Legacy
See also
References
- ^ 한문교육용기초한자(2014학년도부터 적용) [Basic Hanja for educational use (applicable from the year 2014_]. Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
- ^ 인명용추가한자표(人名用追加漢字表). South Korea: Ministry of Government Legislation. 4 December 2018. pp. 13, 17. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
- ^ "신생아 인기 이름 1위, 철수와 영자에서…세월 따라 이름도". Maeil Business Newspaper. 28 July 2014. Retrieved 11 February 2016.