Soo-jung
| Soo-jung | |
| Hangul | 수정 |
|---|---|
| Hanja | |
| Revised Romanization | Su-jeong |
| McCune–Reischauer | Sujŏng |
| IPA | [sudzʌŋ] |
Soo-jung, also spelled Soo-jeong, or Su-jeong, Su-jung, Su-jong, is a Korean feminine given name. Very rarely, it is also used as a male name. The meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 90 hanja with the reading "soo"[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 also means "crystal" in Korean which uses the hanja "水晶".
People with this name include:
Sportspeople
- Park Soo-jeong (born 1972), South Korean female volleyball player
- Lim Su-jeong (kickboxer) (born 1985), South Korean female kickboxer
- Lim Su-jeong (taekwondo) (born 1986), South Korean female taekwondo practitioner
- Hong Su-jong (born 1986 or 1989), North Korean female artistic gymnast
- Jang Su-jeong (born 1995), South Korean female tennis player
- Kim Su-jong (born 2000), North Korean female artistic gymnast
Entertainers
- Hwang Soo-jung (born 1972), South Korean actress
- Im Soo-jung (born 1979), South Korean actress
- Lee Soo-jung (born 1993), American female singer in South Korea
- Baby Soul (born Lee Soo-jung, 1992), South Korean female singer, member of Lovelyz
- Krystal Jung (Korean name Jung Soo-jung, born 1994), South Korean female singer, member of f(x)
- Ryu Su-jeong (born 1997), South Korean female singer, member of Lovelyz
- Kim Su-jung (born 2004), South Korean actress
Other
- Andrew Yeom Soo-jung (born 1943), Roman Catholic Archbishop of Seoul
- Kim Soo-jung (born 1950), South Korean male cartoonist
- Soo Jung Ann (born 1989), South Korean female pianist
- Christel Lee (Korean name Lee Soo-jung, born 1990), American-Canadian female violinist of Korean descent
See also
References
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