Ji-hye
Pronunciation | /dʒi.hɛ/ |
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Gender | Female |
Origin | |
Word/name | Korean |
Meaning | "wisdom", or different depending on Hanja |
Other names | |
Alternative spelling | Jee-hye, Ji-hae, Jee-hae, Ji-hay, Jee-hay |
Ji-hye | |
Hangul | 지혜 |
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Hanja | |
Revised Romanization | Ji-hye |
McCune–Reischauer | Chihye |
IPA | [tɕiheː], [dziheː] |
Ji-hye, also spelled Jee-hye, or Ji-hae, is a Korean feminine given name. The meaning differs based on the hanja used to write each syllable of the name. There are 65 hanja with the reading "ji"[1] and 25 hanja with the reading "hye"[2] on the South Korean government's official list of hanja which may be used in given names. It also means "wisdom" in Korean.[3][4] Ji-hye was the most popular name for newborn girls in South Korea in 1980, 1988, and 1990.[5][6]
People
[edit]People with this name include:
- Ryu Ji-hae (born 1976), South Korean table tennis player
- Yoon Ji-hye (born 1979), South Korean actress
- Lee Ji-hye (born 1980), South Korean singer and actress
- Han Ji-hye (born 1984), South Korean actress
- Lim Ji-hye (born 1985), South Korean weightlifter
- Seo Ji-hye (born 1984), South Korean actress
- Ji-Hae Park (born 1985), German-born South Korean violinist
- Wang Ji-hye (born 1985), South Korean actress
- Ahn Ji-hye (born 1987), South Korean actress
- Yun Ji-hye (born 1997), South Korean taekwondo practitioner
Fictional characters
[edit]Fictional characters with this name include:
- Choe Ji-hye, in 1992 South Korean film Marriage Story
- Ji-hye, in 2003 South Korean film The Classic
- Song Ji-hye, in 2013 South Korean television series Goddess of Marriage
- Lee Jihye, in 2018 South Korean web-novel Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ 대법원 인명용 : 네이버 한자사전 "지"
- ^ 대법원 인명용 : 네이버 한자사전 "혜"
- ^ '지혜': 네이버 영어사전
- ^ 지혜 - Wiktionary
- ^ "한국인이 가장 줗아하는 이름은 무엇일까?". babyname.co.kr. Retrieved 2012-11-09.
- ^ 이진희 (Yi Jin-hui) (2009-01-28). "너도 민준이니… 어! 또 서연이야". Hankook Ilbo. Archived from the original on 2010-10-09. Retrieved 2012-10-27.