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Chae
Hangul
Hanja
Revised RomanizationChae
McCune–ReischauerCh'ae

Chae, also spelled Chai, is a Korean family name and an element in some Korean given names. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it.

Family name

The family name Chae may be written with three different hanja, each having one or two bon-gwan:[1]

Korean:There is only one Chinese character for the Chae surname. There are two Chae clans: the Ch’ilwoun and the Uuisoung, the Ch’ilwoun clan being the larger. Some records indicate that the Chae clans descended from another clan with the two-character surname of Chaegal. According to the Chaegal clan genealogy, the founding ancestor of the Korean Chaegal clan was a twentieth-generation descendant of a Chinese government official, Chae Kal-lyang, a character who plays an important role in the epic tale of the Three Kingdoms. This descendant migrated to the Shilla kingdom sometime in the early 9th century. He and his descendants lived in the southern tip of the Korean peninsula for four centuries. Then, during the reign of Koryou king Kojong (1213–1259), two brothers split the Chaegal surname. One brother, Young, took the surname Kal and the other brother, Hong, took the surname Chae. Afterward, the surnames Chaegal and Kal became all but extinct, with only a few families surviving into the 20th century. In Korea, most members of the Chae clan live in southern Kyoungsang and Choulla provinces.


The 2000 South Korean Census estimated that 119,251 people had these family names.[2]

People with these family names include:

In given names

There are 17 hanja with the reading Chae on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names; they are:[3]

  1. (나물 채): vegetable
  2. (캘 채): to lift
  3. (채색 채): colour
  4. (빚 채): debt
  5. (풍채 채, 캘 채): appearance
  6. (사패지 채): fief
  7. (녹봉 채): stipend
  8. (성씨 채): used as a family name (originally a species of tortoise)
  9. (비단 채): silk
  10. (목책 채): wooden fence
  11. (옥빛 채): brightness of jade
  12. (진터 채): fort
  13. (비녀 채): binyeo (traditional Korean hairpin)
  14. (빚 채): debt
  15. (참나무 채): oak tree
  16. (여자의 자 채): used in women's names
  17. (주목할 채): to watch

Korean given names containing the element Chae include:

See also

References

  1. ^ "한국성씨일람". Kyungpook National University. 2003-12-11. Retrieved 2013-10-30. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)
  2. ^ "성씨인구분포데이터". South Korea: National Statistics Office. Retrieved 2013-05-28. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)
  3. ^ "인명용 한자표" (PDF). South Korea: Supreme Court. Retrieved 2013-10-17. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |trans_title= ignored (|trans-title= suggested) (help)