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Mak yong (Jawi: مق يوڠ ; Thai: มะโย่ง, RTGS: ma yong) is a traditional form of dance-drama from northern Malaysia, particularly the state of Kelantan. It was banned by the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party because of its animist and Hindu - Buddhist roots which pre-date Islam in the Asian region by far. [ 1 ]
Yong is an element in some given names. The meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it. There are 24 hanja with the reading "yong" and one with the reading "ryong" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names; common ones are listed in the table above.
Korean personal names. United States: Central Intelligence Agency. 1962. OCLC 453054. Price, Fiona (2007). "Chapter 6: Korean names". Success with Asian names: a practical guide for business and everyday life. Intercultural Press. ISBN 9781857883787
Young, also spelled Yeong, Yong, or Yung, is an uncommon Korean surname, a single-syllable Korean given name, and an element in many two-syllable Korean given names.As given name meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it.
勇 男 (날랠 용 nallael yong, 사내 남 sanae nam): "brave man". These characters are also used to write various Japanese given names, including Isao and Takeo. [3] 龍 男 (용 룡/용 용 yong ryong/yong yong, 사내 남 sanae nam): "dragon man". These characters are also used to write the Japanese given name Tatsuo. [3]
Other scholars believe 朝鮮 was a translation (like Japanese kun'yomi) of the native Korean Asadal (아사달), the capital of Gojoseon: asa being a hypothetical Altaic root word for "morning", and dal meaning "mountain", a common ending for Goguryeo place names (with the use of the character 鮮 "fresh" to transcribe the final -dal syllable ...
成 勇 (이룰 성 yirul seong, 날랠 용 nallael yong): "becoming brave" 成 龍 (이룰 성 yirul seong, 용 룡/용 용 yong ryong/yong yong): "becoming the dragon"; also spelled Seong-ryong or Sung-ryong. This is the second half of the four-character idiom mangjaseongryong (望子成龍), meaning "hope for one's son to become a dragon".
People with this name include: Nam Sung-yong (1912–2001), Korean male marathon runner of the Japanese colonial period; Seung-Yong Seong (born 1964/1965), South Korean immunologist and microbiologist; Lee Seung-yong (born 1970), South Korean male fencer; Choi Seung-yong (born 1980), South Korean female speed skater