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Tae-yeon (name)

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Tae-yeon
Hangul
태연
Hanja
Revised RomanizationTae-yeon
McCune–ReischauerT'aeyŏn

Tae-yeon is a Korean unisex given name. Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name.

Hanja

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There are 20 hanja with the reading "tae" and 39 hanja with the reading "yeon" 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:

  • (바꿀 태, 고울 연), with hanja meaning "change" and "beautiful"/"kind-hearted"
  • (클 태, 고울 연), with hanja meaning "great" and "beautiful"/"kind-hearted"
  • (클 태, 거만할 연), with hanja meaning "great" and "proud"
  • (클 태, 늘일 연), with hanja meaning "great" and "lengthen"

Some ways of writing the name use hanja for "yeon" that are not on the South Korean government's list of name hanja:

  • (클 태, 가냘플 연), with hanja meaning "great" and "thin"
  • (클 태, 종대추나무 연), with hanja meaning "great" and a kind of Ziziphus tree

People

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People with this name include:

Entertainers
Sportspeople
Others

Fictional characters with this name include:

  • Kim Tae-yeon, female character in 2005 South Korean film Cello
  • Min Tae-yeon, male character in 2011 South Korean television series Vampire Prosecutor

See also

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References

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  1. ^ 인명용 한자표 [Table of hanja for use in personal names] (PDF) (in Korean). South Korea: Supreme Court. p. 23. Retrieved 2013-10-17.