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𨋢(lip1, has no direct meaning, translated according to the English pronunciation) vs 升降機(shēng jiàng jī, meaning machine that elevates and lowers itself), translated from Lift/Elevator. 掰拜(baai1 baai3, has no direct meaning, translated according to the English pronunciation) vs 再見(zài jiàn, meaning see you again ...
This is a typical example of Gugyeol words where the radical '爲' is read in Korean for its meaning (hă —'to do'), whereas the suffix '尼', ni (meaning 'nun'), is used phonetical. Special symbols were sometimes used to aid in the reordering of words in approximation of Korean grammar.
The meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. For the name systemically transcribed as Jin-a . there are 48 hanja with the reading " jin " and 20 hanja with the reading "a" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names. [ 1 ]
Jian Yang (politician) (born c. 1961), China-born New Zealand politician; Jian Yang (geneticist), statistical geneticist, Ruth Stephens Gani Medalist; Yin Jian (born 1978) is a double Olympic medal winning Chinese sailor. Yin Jian (Communist leader), early member of the Chinese Communist Party and a member of the 28 Bolsheviks (1904–1937)
The charts below show the way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) represents Korean language pronunciations in Wikipedia articles. It is based on the standard dialect of South Korea and may not represent some of the sounds in the North Korean dialect or in other dialects.
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The 2000 South Korean census found 147,572 people with this family name. [ 2 ] In a study by the National Institute of the Korean Language based on 2007 application data for South Korean passports , it was found that 79.5% of people with this surname spelled it in Latin letters as Ji in their passports.
South Korean authors claim that the standard language (pyojun-eo or pyojun-mal) of both South Korea and North Korea is based on the dialect of the area around Seoul (which, as Hanyang, was the capital of Joseon-era Korea for 500 years), but since 1966, North Korea officially states that its standard is based on the Pyongyang speech.