Jung-nam

Jung-nam

Jung-nam

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Jung-nam, also spelled Jeong-nam or Jong-nam, is a Korean masculine given name. Its meaning depends on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name.

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Hanja and meaning

There are 75 hanja with the reading "jung" and five hanja with the reading "nam" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names.[1] Some ways of writing this name in hanja include:

  • 正男 (바를 정; bareul nam; 사내 남; sanae nam), meaning "righteous man". The same characters are also used to write the Japanese masculine given name Masao.[2]

According to South Korean government data, Jung-nam was the eighth-most popular name for newborn boys in 1945.[3]

People

People with this name include:

Entertainers

  • Bae Jung-nam [ko] (born 1983), South Korean model and TV personality

Sportspeople

Other

See also

References

  1. [1]
    인명용 한자표 [Table of hanja for use in personal names] (PDF) (in Korean). South Korea: Supreme Court. August 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 August 2017. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
  2. [2]
    Breen, Jim (2011). Japanese Names Dictionary. Electronic Dictionary Research and Development Group. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
  3. [3]
    "요즘 인기있는 이름 1위? 남자-'민준' 여자-'서연'" [The most popular name these days? Boys: 'Min-jun', Girls: 'Seo-yeon']. The Chosun Ilbo. 20 March 2007. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
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