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For instance, the hanja ' 爲 ' was used for its native Korean gloss whereas ' 尼 ' was used for its Sino-Korean pronunciation, and combined into ' 爲尼 ' and read hani (하니), 'to do (and so).' [14] In Chinese, however, the same characters are read in Mandarin as the expression wéi ní, meaning 'becoming a nun'.
Sino-Korean vocabulary or Hanja-eo (Korean: 한자어; Hanja: 漢字 語) refers to Korean words of Chinese origin. Sino-Korean vocabulary includes words borrowed directly from Chinese, as well as new Korean words created from Chinese characters , and words borrowed from Sino-Japanese vocabulary .
Very few hanja are used in modern Korean writing, but are occasionally seen in academic and technical texts and formal publications, such as newspapers, where the rare hanja is used as a shorthand in newspaper headlines, especially if the native Korean equivalent is a longer word, or more importantly, to disambiguate the meaning of a word. Sino ...
Korean names are names that place their origin in, or are used in, Korea. A Korean name in the modern era typically consists of a surname followed by a given name, with no middle names. A number of Korean terms for names exist. For full names, seongmyeong (Korean: 성명; Hanja: 姓名), seongham (성함; 姓銜), or ireum (이름) are
Taegeuk (Korean: 태극; Hanja: 太極, Korean pronunciation: [tʰɛgɯk̚]) is a Sino-Korean term meaning "supreme ultimate", although it can also be translated as "great polarity / duality / extremes". [1] [2] [3] The term and its overall concept is derived from the Chinese Taiji, popularised in the west as the Yin and Yang.
Won is a single-syllable Korean given name, and an element in many two-syllable Korean given names. [1] Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it. There are 47 hanja with the reading "won" [2] on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names.
Choi (Korean: 최; Hanja: 崔) is a Korean family surname. As of the South Korean census of 2015, there were around 2.3 million people by this name in South Korea or roughly 4.7% of the population. [1] In English-speaking countries, it is most often anglicized as Choi, and sometimes also Chey, Choe or Chwe.
Min-jung, also spelled Min-jeong, is a Korean feminine given name. The meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 27 hanja with the reading "min" and 75 hanja with the reading "jung" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names.