Chae-won

Chae-won is a Korean feminine given name. The meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 4 hanja with the reading "chae" and 11 hanja with the reading "won" among the Basic Hanja for educational use,[1] and another 14 with the reading "chae" and 34 with the reading "won" in the Table of Hanja for Personal Name Use as of December 2018.[2] Chae-won was the seventh-most-popular name for newborn girls in South Korea in 2013.[3]

This article is about the feminine given name spelled Chae-won in the Revised Romanization of Korean. For the Korean masculine given name (재원) spelled Chaewŏn in the McCune–Reischauer system, see Jae-won.
Chae-won
Pronunciation/tʃæ.wən/
GenderFemale
Origin
Word/nameKorean
MeaningDifferent depending on Hanja
Other names
Alternative spellingChe-won, Cha-won
Chae-won
Hangul
채원
Hanja
采元, 彩原, 彩媛 and others
Revised RomanizationChae-won
McCune–ReischauerCh'aewŏn
IPA[tɕʰɛwʌn]

People

People with this name include:

  • Kim Chae-won (writer) (born 1946), South Korean writer
  • Lee Chae-won (born 1981), South Korean female cross-country skier
  • Moon Chae-won (born 1986), South Korean actress
  • Kim Chae-won (born 1997), South Korean singer, member of girl group April
  • So Chae-won (born 1997), South Korean archer
  • Kwon Chae-won (born 1999), stage name Eunchae, South Korean singer, member of girl group DIA
  • Kim Chae-won (born 2000), South Korean singer, member of girl group Iz One
  • Park Chae-won (born 2000), stage name Go Won, South Korean singer, member of girl group Loona

Fictional characters

Fictional characters with this name include:

See also

References
  1. 한문교육용기초한자(2014학년도부터 적용) [Basic Hanja for educational use (applicable from the year 2014_]. Korea Institute for Curriculum and Evaluation. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
  2. 인명용추가한자표(人名用追加漢字表). South Korea: Ministry of Government Legislation. 4 December 2018. pp. 13, 17. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
  3. "신생아 인기 이름 1위, 철수와 영자에서…세월 따라 이름도". Maeil Business Newspaper. 28 July 2014. Retrieved 11 February 2016.
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