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Hanja (Korean: 한자; Hanja: 漢字; IPA: [ha(ː)ntɕ͈a]), alternatively spelled Hancha, are Chinese characters used to write the Korean language. [a] After characters were introduced to Korea to write Literary Chinese, they were adapted to write Korean as early as the Gojoseon period.
Hye (Korean:혜) is an element in many two-syllable Korean given names. [2] It is especially used a lot in female names in Korea. There are 25 Hanja with the reading "hye" [3] on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names, and Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it, but mostly "惠" or "慧" is used as the hanja for "hye ...
Modern Han Chinese consists of about 412 syllables [1] in 5 tones, so homophones abound and most non-Han words have multiple possible transcriptions. This is particularly true since Chinese is written as monosyllabic logograms, and consonant clusters foreign to Chinese must be broken into their constituent sounds (or omitted), despite being thought of as a single unit in their original language.
A certain name written in Hangul can be a native Korean name, or a Sino-Korean name, or even both. For example, Bo-ram (보람) can not only be a native Korean name, [21] but can also be a Sino-Korean name (e.g. 寶濫). [22] In some cases, parents intend a dual meaning: both the meaning from a native Korean word and the meaning from Hanja.
Korean mixed script (Korean: 국한문혼용체; Hanja: 國漢文混用體) is a form of writing the Korean language that uses a mixture of the Korean alphabet or hangul (한글) and hanja (漢字, 한자), the Korean name for Chinese characters.
The meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name, however the most common way of writing this name in hanja is 未 來, meaning "future". [1] There are 33 hanja with the reading "mi" and 9 hanja with the reading "rae" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names.
In the mid-20th century, various names containing this element were popular for newborn Korean girls, including: [2] [3] Jung-hee (4th place in 1950, 6th place in 1960) Kyung-hee (9th place in 1950, 3rd place in 1960) Soon-hee (8th place in 1940) Young-hee (3rd place in 1950, 9th place in 1960) Other names containing this element include:
This is the pronunciation key for IPA transcriptions of Korean on Wikipedia. It provides a set of symbols to represent the pronunciation of Korean in Wikipedia articles, and example words that illustrate the sounds that correspond to them.