Yeon (Korean given name)
Appearance
Pronunciation | /jʌn/ |
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Origin | |
Word/name | Korean |
Meaning | Different depending on Hanja |
Other names | |
Alternative spelling | Yon, Yun |
Yeon | |
Hangul | 연 |
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Hanja | |
Revised Romanization | Yeon |
McCune–Reischauer | Yŏn |
IPA | [jʌn] |
Yeon, also spelled Yon, or Yun is a single-syllable Korean given name, and an element in two-syllable Korean given names.[1] Its meaning differs based on the hanja used to write it. There are 56 hanja with the reading "yeon"[2] on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be registered for use in given names.
As a name element
[edit]First syllable
[edit]Second syllable
[edit]- Bo-yeon
- Chae-yeon
- Do-yeon
- Ho-Yeon
- Ji-yeon, 7th place in 1980.[3]
- Ju-yeon
- Mi-yeon
- Se-yeon
- Seo-yeon, 1st place in 2008, 2009, 2011, 2013. 2nd place in 2015. 3rd place in 2017.[4]
- Seung-yeon
- Si-yeon
- So-yeon
- Soo-yeon
- Tae-yeon
- Na-yeon