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Jin Woo
Jin-woo is a Korean masculine given name. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. Hanja There are 43 hanja with the reading "jin" and 41 hanja with the reading "Woo (Korean given name), woo" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names. Ways of writing this name in hanja include: * ( , ): "treasured friend" * ( , ): "true friend". These characters are also used to write the Japanese given name Masatomo. * ( , ): "true home" People People with this name include: Political figures *Song Jin-woo (journalist) (1889–1945), Korean journalist and independence activist *O Jin-u (1917–1995), North Korean soldier and politician *Stephen Jin-Woo Kim (born 1967), South Korean-born American man imprisoned for disclosing classified information to a journalist Sportspeople *Song Jin-woo (born 1966), South Korean baseball player *Kim Jin-woo (footballer) (born 1975), South Korean football ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanja
Hanja (; ), alternatively spelled Hancha, are Chinese characters used to write the Korean language. After characters were introduced to Korea to write Literary Chinese, they were adapted to write Korean as early as the Gojoseon period. () refers to Sino-Korean vocabulary, which can be written with Hanja, and () refers to Classical Chinese writing, although ''Hanja'' is also sometimes used to encompass both concepts. Because Hanja characters have never undergone any major reforms, they more closely resemble traditional Chinese and kyūjitai, traditional Japanese characters, although the stroke orders for certain characters are slightly different. Such examples are the characters and , as well as and . Only a small number of Hanja characters were modified or are unique to Korean, with the rest being identical to the traditional Chinese characters. By contrast, many of the Chinese characters currently in use in mainland China, Malaysia and Singapore have been simplified Chin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
