Kyung-jae
Kyung-jae, Gyeong-jae, and Kyoung-jae are various Latin-alphabet spellings of a single Korean masculine given name. The meaning differs based on the hanja with which the name is written. There are 54 hanja with the reading "kyung" and 20 hanja with the reading "jae" on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names.[1]
| Kyung-jae | |
| Hangul | 경재 |
|---|---|
| Hanja | |
| Revised Romanization | Gyeongjae |
| McCune–Reischauer | Kyŏngjae |
People with this name include:
- Shōkei Arai (birth name Bak Gyeong-jae; 1948–1988), Japan's first naturalised legislator, who represented the former Tokyo 2nd District
- Lee Kyung-jae (born 1954), ethnic Korean community organiser in Japan
- Yun Gyeong-jae (born 1962), South Korean wrestler
- Myung Kyungjae (born 1968), South Korean biologist
- Kim Kyung-jae (c. 1978 – 2002), South Korean man who died from thrombosis after a prolonged video gaming session
- Eli Kim (born Kim Kyoungjae, 1991), member of South Korean boy band U-KISS
- Kim Kyung-jae (footballer) (born 1993), South Korean football defender
See also
References
- "인명용 한자표" [Table of hanja for use in personal names] (PDF). South Korea: Supreme Court. August 2007. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 August 2017. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
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